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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year & best wishes for 2019
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Nice find Kevin.
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Gott nyt ar!
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An interesting story about a note in a bottle (from 1981):
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/06/world/letter-in-bottle-recalls-lost-chapter-in-arctic-exploration.html
Great article Kevin - I quoted it in the Rodgers Discussion page :D
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Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 (https://weddellseaexpedition.org/) -
investigating the state of ice shelves and searching for Shackleton's
Endurance
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MSC Zoe: Islands hit as 270 containers fall off ship (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46746312)
Extensive
debris has washed up on islands off the Dutch north coast after some
270 containers including chemicals fell off a cargo ship in a storm.
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:( :( :(
What a mess!
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Weddell
Sea Expedition 2019 (https://weddellseaexpedition.org/) - investigating
the state of ice shelves and searching for Shackleton's Endurance
8) 8) 8)
MSC Zoe: Islands hit as 270 containers fall off ship (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46746312)
Extensive
debris has washed up on islands off the Dutch north coast after some
270 containers including chemicals fell off a cargo ship in a storm.
:'( :'( :'(
Including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_peroxide#Safety
They mention light bulbs too. Shattered light bulbs on beaches don't sound all that wonderful.
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I don't understand how freighters get away with dropping container contents into every sea. :( :'(
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Found this interesting article about old operating systems on a
Royal Navy survey ship (I was surprised to see they actually are
managing it pretty well!):
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/09/royal_navy_old_os_at_sea/
And another about everyday life on the ship:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/02/hms_enterprise_embed_life_at_sea/
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:)
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Found
this interesting article about old operating systems on a Royal Navy
survey ship (I was surprised to see they actually are managing it pretty
well!):
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/09/royal_navy_old_os_at_sea/
And another about everyday life on the ship:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/02/hms_enterprise_embed_life_at_sea/
Thanks a lot, Hanibal!
I especially enjoyed the everyday life on the ship. A very different time from our ships, but still feeling rather familiar.
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Some bits in those articles chimed with info feom a now retired
submariner who I knew while he was based at Faslane. Some of the
hardware tends to be a bit outdated as well since a lot of the new chips
are very radiation sensitive and they haven't produced 'hardened'
versions of the new chips. However, for the Navy at least, reliability
trumps speed and novelty every time. Apparently subs too use Morse with
overflying planes to pass on super secret info. Difficult to intercept
and less likely to reveal a subs position, although with the impoved
satellite coverage this may no longer be true.
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Belated
Happy Birthday
Kathy !
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I believe it's mapurves' birthday! :o :)
Happy birthday Michael
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Thank you, Caro. I believe you are correct. :)
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Michael::
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Happy Birthday
to
Michael
(http://whitleycakes.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/cat-birthday-cake.jpg)
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Thank you your kind wishes. I'm not 30 in cat years, though.
:) And, to be honest, I'm glad I'm no longer 30 in human years. ;D
;D ;D
There?s
no reliable scientific way to calculate the relationship between human
and cat years, but it?s generally agreed that the first two years of a
cat?s life are roughly equal to the first 25 of a human?s, and after
this, each additional year is around four ?cat years?. This means if
your cat is six years old, their equivalent cat age in human years will
be around 41.
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A very happy birthday to you Michael - and many more!!
;D ;D ;D
I read Dean's message and saw the wisdom of it. So this here's a cake with 100 candles
Of course you may not need all of these yet ;) ;) ;D
(https://i.imgur.com/Gbt9RWt.png)
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Happy Birthday, Michael!
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:) :) :)
I won't light all those candles until I replace our smoke detector, which expired earlier in the week.
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Michael.
Some light relief after your momentous day.
(Others are allowed to enjoy the slides also)
https://imgur.com/a/LNvMoAQ (https://imgur.com/a/LNvMoAQ)
Stuart
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Happy Birthday
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My momentous day involved catching a bad cold I managed to avoid for
two months. This one came from California, via our two year old
grandson. ::)
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Belated birthday greetings - and I hope the cold goes soon. Foreign ones are always the worst!
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;D ;D ;D
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Colds are miserable! :(
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Yesterday afternoon at my place boom crash opera.
https://imgur.com/a/tnw8vl8 (https://imgur.com/a/tnw8vl8)
Only 11mm recorded but that was over only a 3 hrs period.
5 hr blackout (better than predicted 7 hr.)
16-33c today no rain
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Colds are miserable! :(
Get well soon :-* :-* :-*
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Yesterday afternoon at my place boom crash opera.
https://imgur.com/a/tnw8vl8 (https://imgur.com/a/tnw8vl8)
Only 11mm recorded but that was over only a 3 hrs period.
5 hr blackout (better than predicted 7 hr.)
16-33c today no rain
That's just a damp day if you live in Vancouver. ;D
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Yesterday afternoon at my place boom crash opera.
https://imgur.com/a/tnw8vl8 (https://imgur.com/a/tnw8vl8)
Only 11mm recorded but that was over only a 3 hrs period.
5 hr blackout (better than predicted 7 hr.)
16-33c today no rain
:o :o :o No need to water the hanging plants then ;D
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I do feel for the people who lose their houses to heavy rain.
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Earth's magnetic field is acting up and geologists don't know why (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1)
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No wonder I have trouble finding my way home. ;D
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No wonder I have trouble finding my way home. ;D
Buy a new house in Siberia Stuart - simple! ;D
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Good idea. Then I only have to head North from where ever I am. ::)
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Good idea. Then I only have to head North from where ever I am. ::)
Beats Satnav if you ask me ;) ;) ;D
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I am actually looking at a house in a retirement village further north from my place.
I will have to check if it is still where I last looked. :o ::) ;D
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I am actually looking at a house in a retirement village further north from my place.
I will have to check if it is still where I last looked. :o ::) ;D
Will it be close to Yattalunga? ;)
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As of today, 1 hr North of Yattalunga.
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As of today, 1 hr North of Yattalunga.
Yay! I'll be able to pop in for a visit. :) :) :)
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Earth's magnetic field is acting up and geologists don't know why (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1)
In
my college geology class (back when the north pole was still in
Canada), I learned about the poles flipping, and that we're
overdue. I was excited that it might happen in my lifetime.
But since then I've read the process takes 1000s of years.
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It sounds like you're giving up. ;)
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For those not enjoying to cool, come downunder.
Temperature records have been broken in Port Augusta and Tarcoola as South Australia suffers through an extreme heatwave.
South Australia on a "code red" alert due to heatwave conditions
Temperature records broken in northern towns
Bats are falling out of trees in Adelaide due to heat prompting warning
The
Bureau of Meteorology said Tarcoola, in the state's north-west, reached
49 degrees Celsius at 3:20pm, its hottest temperature since records
began in 1903.
Port Augusta ? a much larger town ? also broke its record with a top of 48.9C at 2:31pm.
The top temperature ever recorded in Australia was 50.7C in Oodnadatta in January 1960
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(https://ii1.pepperfry.com/media/catalog/product/h/i/494x544/hitplay-360-ml-frosty-beer-mug-hitplay-360-ml-frosty-beer-mug-t5yqre.jpg)
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Given the choice between +49 and -49, I choose the latter with no hesitation.
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Given the choice between +49 and -49, I choose the latter with slight hesitation.
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Ditto.
Was going to have a cool beer when I got back from work, now have to go back up to Sydney.
Beer on hold.
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The trick for being outside when it's -49, and I have been, is to
dress properly. Starting from the bottom, and working up, I wore:
- heavy wool socks over a lighter pair;
- what
we called Snow Packs, which were Sorel boots which went up to mid-shin
on your legs. They had heavy felt liners inside, heavy rubber soles and
had water and wind proof uppers;
- long johns, heavy pants and
lined snow pants that were also water and wind proof. The snow pants
would go over the top off your snow packs and be tied off so no air
would get in;
- undershirt, shirt, sweater and a very heavy and
expensive goose down parka. The parka had storm cuffs, extended down
below your bum, over your head and had a tube about a foot or more long
that extended out from your face. The outside of the tube was
lined with wolverine fur. The tube and fur helped keep some of your
exhaled breath close to your face to prevent frostbite;
- a heavy toque for your head; and,
- a
pair of warm cloth mittens that were under the storm cuffs of your
parka, and heavy sheepskin mitts that went over the outer sleeves of
your parka and halfway up your forearm.
I had three parkas,
one for temps 0 -> -10; one for -10 -> -25 and the heavy one for
-25 and colder. It was unwearable at temperatures above -25, because you
would really overheat.
There were three drawbacks to being so comfortable:
- It takes a long time to get dressed;
- You
have limited side to side visibility because of the tube, so when you
come to an intersection you have to turn your whole body from side to
side, which makes the people look like penguins; and,
- It takes a long time to undress, which is an issue when you really really need to go.
Winter
was my favourite time in the north, and I walked home each day after
work, which was about three kilometers. I took the bus in the mornings.
It was much better than trying to drive.
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The trick for being outside when it's -49, and I have been, is to
dress properly. Starting from the bottom, and working up, I wore:
heavy wool socks over a lighter pair; :o
You wear socks on your bottom, really Michael. ::) ;D
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Fine! Starting at the feet and working up... ;D ;D ;D
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My stepmom has some outfits made of reindeer fur, for when she does field trips to Siberia.
She told me that when not in use, they need to be kept refrigerated or they will rot.
Did any of your clothing require special preservation like that, Michael?
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Interesting!
Parka and pants? Boots?
What kind of temperatures does she have to deal with?
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No, they were all modern adaptations of traditional designs. By
modern, I mean rubber, polypropylene, cotton, wool, nylon etc. Good gear
can be expensive, and expensive gear is not necessarily good. You
really have to consider what you're doing when you're using your gear.
My mitts were unsuitable for working with your hands, and my parka was
unsuitable for any jobs that required a decent field of view. However,
my gear was perfect for walking around outside, or doing something like
dog-sledding. I think my parka was $700 or $900 twenty years ago. I left
it in the north with a charitable group, not having any use for it
here. They needed it for visitors who came up north in the dead of
winter. I'm not sure it would be of much use anymore, it being quite
unusual to have temperatures less than -25 in the Yukon anymore.
:'(
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I'm somewhat surprised that I saw this
(https://www.troyhunt.com/the-773-million-record-collection-1-data-reach/)
before Hanibal. :o
Here's the nub of the article:
770,000,000 lines of data containing email addresses and
passwords has been dumped on the internet. As you know, many web
services want your email as a log in, and you make up some password. You
might use me@hotmail.com with a password of OW99. In this data breach
there may be a line that says:
me@hotmail.com and OW99.
So, have any of your email addresses shown up in this list?
You can find out by checking here (https://haveibeenpwned.com/).
Of
four that we use, one of them did show up. It showed up twice, as a
matter of fact. I use this email to log into 43 different websites, OW
being one. Naturally.
However, I don't know what password goes with that email address, and the "good guys" won't say.
So,
you can use this tool (https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords) to check
your OW password. Mine is more sophisticated than OW99, but it isn't a
string of 20 random characters, and when I checked my OW password this
is what I got:
Oh no ? pwned!
This password has been seen 9 times before
This
still doesn't tell me if my OW password is linked to my email, but I
will change it. I started using a password manager some time ago, but I
haven't bothered to randomize all 136 logins that I have used at one
time or another.
Perhaps someone like Hanibal has a really great
password for OW. If it shows up in the password checker, then we can
assume that the hackers got the email addresses and passwords from OW.
If not, we can assume that OW did not have a breach.
Anyway, this seems to be the new reality. Sorry,
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For me, so far so good
(https://marketplace.canva.com/MACLvwPlktg/1/thumbnail_large/canva-scared-emoticon-emoji-MACLvwPlktg.png)
I only checked my email.
I was a little nervous about checking my passwords...
(even though I will be changing them :P)
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For me, so far so good (https://marketplace.canva.com/MACLvwPlktg/1/thumbnail_large/canva-scared-emoticon-emoji-MACLvwPlktg.png)
I only checked my email.
I was a little nervous about checking my passwords...
(even though I will be changing them :P)
Ditto
me for gmail. :D However, unsurprisingly, 5 breaches
and one paste for the BT address. Harrumphhh! >:( I'll be
dealing with this one today! ::)
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Interesting!
Parka and pants? Boots?
What kind of temperatures does she have to deal with?
I'll ask her next time I see her, which may be some time - she lives in Lyon, and doesn't come to Leipzig very often.
I'm
somewhat surprised that I saw this
(https://www.troyhunt.com/the-773-million-record-collection-1-data-reach/)
before Hanibal. :o
Perhaps someone like Hanibal has a
really great password for OW. If it shows up in the password checker,
then we can assume that the hackers got the email addresses and
passwords from OW. If not, we can assume that OW did not have a breach.
I
didn't see that article, but I have heard of the site, and used it
before - although I didn't know about the password checking function!
That's very nice.
Anyways: I checked, and my email address is safe. My OW password is OK too, as are a few others of mine.
I don't use a password manager, but I do have my own way of generating them:
- Memorize a bunch of alphanumeric codes, each at least 8 characters long, e.g. j3lpw5ZF
- Build each password out of at least two of these codes, e.g. j3lpw5ZF+Cp49Adse
- Write
the password down somewhere (a piece of paper, an email that you send
to yourself, etc.) - but only the first two letters of each segment! So
the above example could be "zooniverse.org: j3 + Cp"
- That way, even if someone gets their hands on your list, it will be useless since they don't know what the full codes are.
I have memorized a total of 13
codes for this purpose, and I keep a little table so I can make sure
each combo really is unique. That's enough for way more logins than I
have.
And another trick for remembering PINs: Write down a math
problem where the PIN is the solution, but it requires some other number
that ONLY YOU know.
For example: Let's say the other number is four
(the most cups of Gluehwein I have ever had at once), and the PIN is
3293 - in this case, I would write it down as "PIN = 3333 - 10 * Most
G-wine cups at once".
So yeah, that's how I do it. Sounds a bit obsessive, but it works fine.
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So yeah, that's how I do it. Sounds a bit obsessive, but it works fine.
Can you even be a bit obsessive given the hackers around today though? They are so determined :-\ >:( :(
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I do like your method. I only went to a password manager because if
your browser autofills passwords for you, and why wouldn't you let it, a
security flaw in your browser could make your passwords visible to a
hacker. Not likely, but there you go. The password manager keeps
everything encrypted and enters your login data automatically, and your
browser doesn't have a copy.
That's very handy to know that OW wasn't hacked. I'll just keep my password as it is.
My bank passwords are written down, and neither my password manager nor my browsers know what they are.
Mind you, it's all well and good but if they
want your data, they'll get it. I read that when Edward Snowden and
Laura Palmer (?) were exchanging data they were using private keys with
8,000 random characters. I read that Snowden thought their exchanges
would be uncrackable by the NSA for some number of years, but it wasn't
all that small. Maybe ten or twenty, but I just don't remember exactly.
I just hope the mods don't institute 8,000 random character passwords for OW. ;D ;D ;D
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I just hope the mods don't institute 8,000 random character passwords for OW. ;D ;D ;D
I
can be bribed to make sure that doesn't happen, but it's not cheap. A
week of your pay here should just about do it ;) ;) ;D
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I just hope the mods don't institute 8,000 random character passwords for OW. ;D ;D ;D
I
can be bribed to make sure that doesn't happen, but it's not cheap. A
week of your pay here should just about do it ;) ;) ;D
The cheque's in the mail. I wasn't sure if you wanted Euros or Pounds, so I put in one of each.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/hemingways-world-war-i-savior-is-anonymous-no-more/2019/01/18/d3dbbb32-0ea0-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2fktXaqcemsByWvapnej9u9tV0zHwoVG_ePLeSTJmHB_3a0n4mCW2jIgg&utm_term=.5183ae59492d
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Going back to the cold clothing discussion: when we were sailing in
the Ross Sea in mid-winter we'd have to keep a heat gun in the deck shop
to melt our frozen balaclavas off our faces. Frozen breath and
snot-cicles.
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The things we do in the cold! ;D
That was a nice article about the soldier who saved Hemmingway's life.
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Hemingway
himself made no known attempt to learn anything of his accidental
savior and even left him out of his highly autobiographical but
fictional account of his wounding, "A Farewell to Arms."
That is a disgrace even if he was an accidental savior.
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Going
back to the cold clothing discussion: when we were sailing in the Ross
Sea in mid-winter we'd have to keep a heat gun in the deck shop to melt
our frozen balaclavas off our faces. Frozen breath and snot-cicles.
Dog sledding in high Sweden in January I made the mistake of taking off my balaclava to eat and drink at the halfway stop.
It
froze and I had to go the second half of the trip sans balaclava
sitting behind the other sledder. I looked like Kenny from Southpark. It
was about -24 to -26c.
A lesson was learned that day. :-[
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This morning Pittsburgh was 1F
(17C)(-17C)!
Nowhere near a record, but cold enough for me ;D
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Minus 17C. The only person I know who thinks 17C is cold is
our daughter who lived in Saudi Arabia for five years. ;D ;D ;D
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Oops! :-[ ;D
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Minus
17C. The only person I know who thinks 17C is cold is our
daughter who lived in Saudi Arabia for five years. ;D ;D ;D
And my mother.
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Currently -1F (-18C) here in beautiful Niagara Falls, New York. Like PGH - no record, just chilly!
BTW - Since many of us have read Logs and 'Patent Logs' I thought this may be of some interest:
https://www.sailfeed.com/2019/01/my-walker-taffrail-log-designed-centuries-ago-and-still-working/
Blessings, Dean
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Hit -1C in Oxford and we had a good snow fall of some of the largest
flakes I've ever seen. They coated a few pavements and looked decorous
on the trees. Oxford panicked and headed home ready for the oncoming
storm bringing 6ft of white stuff. By the time we got home it had
stopped and the resulting coat of about 6mm that wasn't that worrying ;)
BTW - Since many of us have read Logs and 'Patent Logs' I thought this may be of some interest:
https://www.sailfeed.com/2019/01/my-walker-taffrail-log-designed-centuries-ago-and-still-working/
That
was interesting Dean. had never thought of the importance of the log
being black. I guess you'd soon paint it once a load of dolphins turned
up to chase it down for a mistaken dinner? ;) :D
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Here's something interesting I found out: Russia once earned a piece of California!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/when-russia-colonized-california-celebrating-200-years-of-fort-ross-880099/
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8) 8) 8)
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yep - it's a 8) 8) 8) from me too. Wonderful buildings :D
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Two great articles!
Thanks Dean and Hanibal ;D
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https://www.georgiaarchives.org/online_exhibits/handwriting?fbclid=IwAR3iHV7cZxAtvfLrJn23SpMtcBM0L7mpL_4PUyWnV0mJ2Lgz2c45ZpcNEG0
(shared by AOTUS on FB).
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8) 8) 8)
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Not too bad after our log books ;D
(Added to http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5100.msg157213#msg157213)
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. ;D
https://www.georgiaarchives.org/online_exhibits/handwriting?fbclid=IwAR3iHV7cZxAtvfLrJn23SpMtcBM0L7mpL_4PUyWnV0mJ2Lgz2c45ZpcNEG0
(shared by AOTUS on FB).
I will ahve to admit there were the odd 1 (or 1000) that I could not read . ;D
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That was fun ;D I did very well, one rather distressed
bit of paper took a bit longer. Knowing more about the law would help
too. Perhaps we should advertise OW on their site? ;)
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https://www.georgiaarchives.org/online_exhibits/handwriting?fbclid=IwAR3iHV7cZxAtvfLrJn23SpMtcBM0L7mpL_4PUyWnV0mJ2Lgz2c45ZpcNEG0
(shared by AOTUS on FB).
All I can add is:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky. ::)
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Just watched Nat Geo doc "Paris to Pittsburgh"
Wow.
Keep up the good fight.
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https://www.georgiaarchives.org/online_exhibits/handwriting?fbclid=IwAR3iHV7cZxAtvfLrJn23SpMtcBM0L7mpL_4PUyWnV0mJ2Lgz2c45ZpcNEG0
(shared by AOTUS on FB).
All I can add is:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky. ::)
Wonderful, I still love the Jabberwock. :D
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http://www.climateaction.org/news/arctic-region-experiencing-its-warmest-century-in-over-115000-years?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Germany+to+phase+out+coal+by+2038+-+Climate+Action+News&utm_campaign=CA+Newsletter+29th+January+2019
:'( :'( :'(
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:'( :'( :'(
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Wrap up well you OW'ers in the Midwest states.
A "None climate change" cold snap is about to or has just hit.
-32c with wind chill to -52c.
Time to light the fire and enjoy a good 'hot toddy'.
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Time to light the fire and enjoy a good 'hot toddy'.
:o Good luck Mid-Westers!
I
don;t have an open fireplace in my flat - but I can probably manage a
double hot toddy to make up for hat...thanks for the suggestion
Stuart ;D
We've had a couple of cold nights (some places even got below zero in the South of England) and so the MetOffice felt inspired to share some ice information..I was pleasantly surprised to find:
https://beta.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/frost-and-ice/ice-pancakes
Which reminds me to check when pancake day falls this year.... ;) :D
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The area around me (Niagara Falls, NY) has 'closed' for 2 days due
to the threat of snow & wind chills that came from the Mid West.
Currently (1600GMT/UTC) it's 1?F(-17?C) with wind chills listed at -22?F (-30?C). Tomorrow is supposed to be even worse.
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A friend in Leigh, UK (near Manchester) sent me a photo of snow in
her garden. there seems to be lots of cold weather going around. None
here though. :) :) :)
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Mid 30sC for the last few days. 34c and 71% humidity today, dipping to a coool 18c tomorrow then back up to 29C on Sunday.
Bowral, NSW Australia.
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Was the all time record max not broken in the last two weeks? I saw
that Australia's all time record high minimum was set. I think it was
36.something, which makes it hard to sleep if you don't have A/C.
::)
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This morning the bus driver told me to exit via the front/boarding door because the back door was frozen shut.
Currently - 15:20 - Temp -19C, wind 17 km/h
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The buses in Whitehorse never had that problem, even when the temp was below -40. ;D ;D ;D
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Positively balmy here at -2. :)
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Mid 30sC for the last few days. 34c and 71% humidity today, dipping to a coool 18c tomorrow then back up to 29C on Sunday.
Bowral, NSW Australia.
We actually reached 40C at work just up the road (60km) from my place.
Michael.
The
lowest temperature observed at Noona and Borrona Downs and during the
24 hours to 9am on Friday January 18th were 35.9 degrees and 35.6
degrees respectively.
Australia in Spring 2018 from the BOM (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/season/aus/summary.shtml)
Australia's
ninth-warmest spring on record; third-warmest for Queensland,
seventh-warmest for the Northern Territory, equal eighth-warmest for
Tasmania
Exceptionally warm spring for northern Australia, and
exceptionally warm October nation-wide (fourth-warmest October on record
for Australia)
Heatwave across the tropical coast of Queensland in
the last week of November saw record-breaking daytime temperatures and
extensive fire activity
Nationally, spring rainfall was near-average; but mixed over individual months and geographically
Eight-driest spring for Tasmania, ninth-driest for Victoria
Driest
September on record for Australia; second-driest September for
Victoria; third-driest for Western Australia and South Australia.
Caro
Have you got a spare bed at your place? ;) Stuart.
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Well, well, well ... me ol' shipmate Pommy Stuart is still posting
and able to fog a mirror! It's been a while, hasn't it? Has
your grey matter turned to mush in the heat yet? We've had 5 days this
year in Canberra at 40-42 and I am well and truly over it. Roll on
winter (but not to the current central US standards).
A happy, if belated, New Year to all former colleagues. I hope you are all keeping well.
Cheers,
Steeleye
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Hi Howard.
Yep, still here in Bowral but maybe not for long.
Are you still plodding on with OW or have you found greener pastures?
Belated Greetings to you and yours also.
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Hi again Stuart,
For some reason I thought that you were
based in Woolongong (yclept "The 'Gong" for all you non-locals).
Bowral's pretty nice though - sort of Australian aristocratic territory,
if we were to have any. Where are you likely to be heading off
to, if I may ask?
I haven't done any OW work for quite a few
years, although Randi just sent me an email (?along with other
recalcitrants, I suspect) trying to rope me back in. I stopped doing OW
when the Royal Navy logs were finished as they were my prime interest. I
then moved into the Naval-History.net trasncriptions of the RN logs for
several years - where I still have to finish HMS Repulse. The
last couple of years I have got into a number of zooniverse projects,
both biological (eg Wildwatch Kenya and Numbat Discovery) and
meteorological (Weather Rescue and Southern Weather Discovery). I guess
the need for scientific data transcribers is never going to go away!
I'll
need to have a think about coming back to OW. The community spirit was
always good and generally much better than on other zooniverse projects.
Good to talk to you. Cheers,
Howard
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You are the first to reply ;D
The community has shrunk, but the spirit is still strong!
I had no great interest in the navy or WWI, but I got hooked by the little details of life on the ships.
The ship's mascat goat "Nan" returned on board after a week's leave ashore on a farm.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/6919263/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-026/585454-noaa/bear/vol107/26-159A-bear-vol107_024.jpg
and
George F. Gxxxxx, Sea 2c sent to Marine Hospital No 19 - for inpatient treatment; illness due to his own misconduct. :-X
https://zooniverse-static.s3.amazonaws.com/old-weather-2015/The_Arctic_Frontier/Coast_Guard/Northland_WPG-49_/Northland-WPG-49-1929-split/Northland-WPG-49-1929-0410-1.JPG
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We are going from very cold to very warm.
It is/was pretty nasty here in Pittsburgh but not nearly as bad as in the Midwest.
(https://9b16f79ca967fd0708d1-2713572fef44aa49ec323e813b06d2d9.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/1140x_a10-7_cTC/20190130arColdWeather04-3-1548938818.jpg)
https://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2019/01/30/Winter-weather-wind-chill-advisory-pittsburgh-forecast/stories/201901300101?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=editors-picks-local-frontpage&utm_campaign=Headlines-Newsletter
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Well,
well, well ... me ol' shipmate Pommy Stuart is still posting and able
to fog a mirror! It's been a while, hasn't it? Has your grey
matter turned to mush in the heat yet? We've had 5 days this year in
Canberra at 40-42 and I am well and truly over it. Roll on winter (but
not to the current central US standards).
A happy, if belated, New Year to all former colleagues. I hope you are all keeping well.
Cheers,
Steeleye
Nice to see you, Howard.
I was just going to remind you about HMS Repulse. ;)
Stuart: Forecast is for widespread heavy snow. Come on over!
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40c with 75% humidity yesterday.
Today 18c with 95% humidity.
Back to comfortable 28 on the weekend.
Caro.
Will be in your area 27 June at Biggin Hill. Save me some snow till then. :D
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Yeah nah. ;D
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Well, well , well, it?s been quite a long time, but it seems the
winds of misfortune have finally begun to calm, and I?ve managed to find
time to return to the seas, our ships, and all of you, my old trusty
crew. Now I just need to figure out where to start! It?s good to be
back. I?ve missed you guys.
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And we have missed you!!! Welcome back. :) :) :)
I'm sure Randi will soon direct you to the correct ship.
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Welcome back, Jack!
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I just approved the data set "Pacific arctic sea-ice observations
from U.S. Federal logbooks (1900-1938)" and will let you all know when
the doi is published by the NSF Arctic Data Center. Thank you co-authors
- any special mess deck arrangements held in abeyance during the recent
swabbing of loose trailing commas in the csv may be requested next
week.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Ahoy, HatterJack!
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Where is this so called global warming??? ::) ::) ::)
After all, this is Victoria, B.C. we're talking about.
The extended ECMWF weather forecast for Victoria
YYYY/MM/DD/
Hour Day Weather
TT DDD/FFF Pcp Max/Min
2019/02/02/12:00
Saturday Sunny 6
WNW/011 0.0 Min 3
2019/02/02/18:00 Saturday Cloudy 4 N/018G028 0.0
2019/02/03/00:00
Sunday Cloudy
4 N/011 0.0 Max 8
2019/02/03/06:00 Sunday Light rain 3 WSW/036G057 0.4
2019/02/03/12:00 Sunday Light rain 2 WSW/029G046 0.1 Min 0
2019/02/03/18:00
Sunday Cloudy
2 NE/007 0.0
2019/02/04/00:00
Monday Snow
-2 NNE/047G075 2.8 Max 6
2019/02/04/06:00 Monday Snow -1 NNE/050G080 1.2
2019/02/04/12:00 Monday Partly Cloudy 0 NNE/036G057 0.0 Min -4
2019/02/04/16:00
Monday Sunny
0 N/022G035 0.0
2019/02/04/22:00
Monday Sunny
0 NNE/022G035 0.0 Max 2
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It is finally up to freezing here.
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;D ;D ;D
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We have rain to spare if anybody wants it.
Townsville QLD Australia
Date Day Min C Max C Rain mm
Jan-19
27 Su 23.3
27.6
30
28 Mo 24
26.7
51.6
29 Tu 23.9
27.7
80
30 We 24.1
27.1
108.6
31 Th 24.6
26.9
153
Feb-19
1 Fr 24.4
26.5
216.4
2 Sa 24.6
141.8
(sorry for misaligned columns)
See also
Townsville rain predictions (http://www.bom.gov.au/places/qld/townsville/)
On the other hand.
Tasmanian Fire warnings (http://www.fire.tas.gov.au/Show?pageId=colGMapBushfires)
In the last few days there has been a drop off in Red alerts.
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That's a bit of wet, isn't it? :o
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A few flood warnings for river systems affected by Townsville floods. It will be most of Queensland.
Flood warnings (http://www.bom.gov.au/qld/flood/brochures/river_maps.shtml)
I might ask Michael to explain the maps?
Area: 1.853 million km?
Population: 4.691 million (Dec 2013)
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Not sure if Stuart has already given this link (I've only just sort
of rejoined OW), but in addition to northern Queensland being a bit
soggy, Oz is generally going through a fairly hot summer (see
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-01/australian-weather-hottest-month-on-record-in-january/10769392
). Take your pick: minus 40 or +49, or a metre or so of rain,
they're all pretty ugly!
As a way of coping with the vicissitudes
of 21st century weather, I can recommend the 2015 'Moonlake'
cabernet-shiraz, but you'll have to be quick getting here if you want to
share a glass!
Cheers,
Steeleye
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News today said some areas around Townsville have had 1.65 mtrs of rain in the last 7 days.
Local dam gates are open releasing 1300 Cu Mtrs of water /Sec.
May soon be opened to let out 2000 Cu Mtrs /sec down to the already flooded township.
Dark Corner
Durif Shiraz for me.
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Happy birthday Matteo.
Auguri!
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I will raise some of my Dark Corner, Durif Shiraz to celebrate with you Matteo. :)
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Happy Birthday
Matteo !
(https://www.monicacesarato.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/b4212f7c30488bc60647eaa764d6e791_large.jpg)
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Crisps anyone?
World War One grenade among potatoes at Hong Kong crisp factory.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47107609
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/32D8/production/_105461031_hi052073606.jpg)
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Happy Birthday, Matteo!
To
help you celebrate your birthday, I'll send along a few more obscure
locations along the east coast of Baffin Island. ;D ;D ;D
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Buon compleanno, Matteo!
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I didn't think I'd be able to get out of the house after the all
night blizzard. If the legislature had been in session, I was going to
take a snowball there and throw it at the premier saying, "You call this
global warming!" ;D ;D ;D
Summary: 12 24 Hrs
Maximum: -0.6 3.2 deg C
Minimum: -5.1 -5.1 deg C
Precip: 0.0 0.2 mm
Max Wind: 39 42 kmh
(https://i.imgur.com/FQnZ28A.jpg)
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https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A20P0WQ7M
v1
is released. Unfortunately, there are only so many spots before 'et al.'
in the header. Everyone is listed at the end of the scroll down. You
will recognize yourselves as 'contributing principal investigators',
which I think is quite grand. This version will be updated and a few
oddities corrected then (e.g. format of tables in the documentation).
Thank you all for the extraordinary effort.
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Just do a search on your name ;)
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8) ;D
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Now if I could just get through indexing the obs from pre-1900...
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It's wonderful to see all our work being published. :) :) :)
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Book reviews: Two new books explore the science and history of the
1918 flu pandemic
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-books-explore-science-history-1918-flu-pandemic)
The
U.S.S. Leviathan set sail from Hoboken, N.J., on September 29, 1918,
carrying roughly 10,000 troops and 2,000 crewmen. The ship, bound for
the battlefields in France, had been at sea less than 24 hours when the
first passengers fell ill. By the end of the day, 700 people had
developed signs of the flu.
The medical staff tried to separate the
sick from the healthy, but that soon proved impossible. The poorly
ventilated bunkrooms filled with the stench of illness. The floor grew
slippery with blood from many nosebleeds, and the wails of the sick and
dying echoed below deck. Bodies piled up and began decomposing, until
finally the crew was forced to heave them into the sea. It was the stuff
of nightmares.
This is just one of the grisly scenes in Pandemic
1918 by historian Catharine Arnold. The book details how the movement of
troops during World War I helped drive the spread of a deadly strain of
influenza around the globe -- from the American Midwest to Cape Town,
South Africa, to New Zealand and beyond.
Beavers
are engineering a new Alaskan tundra
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/beavers-are-engineering-new-alaskan-tundra)
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Sounds like the pandemic book will be fascinating if you have the
stomach to take the detail. That journey must have been like a living
hell. :-\ :o
Love the beavers story...they are back in the UK too and doing wonderful things....
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161005-beavers-are-back-in-the-uk-and-they-will-reshape-the-land :D
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It's wonderful to see all our work being published. :) :) :)
Including Michaels lovely maps.
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Thanks for letting us know, Kevin - very nice!
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Wish I could have made it along to this lecture today - not least for its fun title:
Physics Colloquium, Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, 15 February 2019
Professor Bjorn Stevens
?Quo Vadis Nubibus??
Clouds
are funny things: ephemeral dispersions to which we attach great
meaning and provide a wealth of interpretation. In climate
science we are often forced to confront the question as to why clouds
form, how they affect the climate system, and whether these effects can
be constrained by some greater principle. Such questions are
at the heart of many of climate science's great unknowns, but also
addressed to a sense of wonder that comes from looking to the sky.
In entertaining these questions, I will explain why clouds on
Earth are not special, but perhaps peculiar, how they interact with
Earth?s climate system in unexpected ways, and strategies that are being
developed ? at great expense ? to read reason from their randomness.
About
the speaker: Bjorn Stevens is a director at the Max-Planck-Institute
for Meteorology where he leads the Atmosphere in the Earth System
Department and is a professor at the University of Hamburg. Prior to
moving to Hamburg he was a full professor of Dynamic Meteorology at the
University of California of Los Angeles. His research blends modelling,
theory and field work to help articulate the role of aerosols, clouds
and atmospheric convection in the climate system. He has made pioneering
contributions to both understanding and modelling of mixing and
microphysical processes and their impact on the structure and
organization of clouds. Likewise his contribution to an understanding of
how clouds respond to warming, and how radiative forcing responds to
aerosol perturbations, has proven fundamental to our present
comprehension of the susceptibility of Earth's climate to perturbations.
In lay terms, his research has helped understand, and seeks to further
understand, how clouds have changed, and will change, due to the
presence of humans.
The colloquia will take place at
3.30pm in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks
Road. Please be seated by 3.25pm. Tea and coffee will be available in
the CL common room after each colloquium.
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Very cool. I wish I could have been there too.
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My stepmom has some outfits made of reindeer fur, for when she does field trips to Siberia.
She told me that when not in use, they need to be kept refrigerated or they will rot.
Did any of your clothing require special preservation like that, Michael?
I finally met up with my stepmom again - turns out the refrigeration is actually to keep moths away.
Also,
it wasn't a full outfit - just boots. For everything else, synthetic
clothing is fine, since she doesn't work or spend much time outdoors.
She said the boots are homemade, so no chemical treatment - that's why the moths like to eat them.
The
native people in Siberia do wear full reindeer fur outfits, because
they're outside all the time, and even today animal fur is the best for
that.
But it does require a lot of effort to treat and sew together.
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I always wondered why furs were not worn 'inside out', so the fur
would be on the inside and the wind proof skin on the outside. Turns out
that if you sweat into the fur, by wearing it next to your skin, it
clumps up and doesn't work properly. The skins do look heavy. I
guess you just get used to that. :D
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The Modern Hiawatha
(Excerpt from "Song of Milkanwatha")
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/strong.htm
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The Modern Hiawatha
(Excerpt from "Song of Milkanwatha")
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/strong.htm
Thanks, cracking ditty Keith! You'd want to practice that a lot before trying it in public ;D
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I am having a short holiday in London from tomorrow with one of my sons. Returning on Wednesday.
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I am having a short holiday in London from tomorrow with one of my sons. Returning on Wednesday.
Well done! I hope you both have a wonderful time. :)
We'll be here when you get back... ;)
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I am having a short holiday in London from tomorrow with one of my sons. Returning on Wednesday.
Up
in 'The Big Smoke' eh? I think that London has the hardest pavements
out - take some foot salve with you! Have a lovely time Hurlock :D
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I am having a short holiday in London from tomorrow with one of my sons. Returning on Wednesday.
Enjoy!
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Have a good time, Hurlock!
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High winds here in Pittsburgh!!!
Lost power yesterday afternoon and it is still out.
Last night it was 55,000 now it is around 38,000.
They can't use the "buckets" to reach the pole tope and wires when the winds are more than 40mph.
https://www.duquesnelight.com/outages-safety/current-outages
Luckily, I am able to stay with a friend who has power.
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Hope the winds abate and you get the power back soon, Randi.
Meanwhile, UK basks in warmest February day on record (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47360952).
Not sure this is a good thing ...
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Winds have abated, power is back on, and I am home!
No, the winds and the warm February are not good things :'(
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I am curious Randi, what are the units for the numbers below?
Last night it was 55,000 now it is around 38,000.
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Oops!
Total Customers Affected
Currently: 28937
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I was trying to imagine people trying to stand up in Pittsburgs high winds that strong. :o ;D ;D ;D
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The people probably did better than the utility poles ;D
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Depending on the paper you read the estimated loos of cattle in the
recent Queensland floods is up to 500,000 head at ave AU$1000 per head
that's a lot of money.
Crazy weather, it was not long ago (think a few months) that the state was ravaged by bushfires.
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Depending
on the paper you read the estimated loos of cattle in the recent
Queensland floods is up to 500,000 head at ave AU$1000 per head that's a
lot of money.
Crazy weather, it was not long ago (think a few months) that the state was ravaged by bushfires.
Poor cattle - can't imagine how desperate they must have been - so scared. :'( :'( :'(
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Welcome back, Hurlock!
On time, and I will assume clean and sober ;D
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Back now having done some of the standard tourist attractions -
Tower bridge, London Eye, Science Museum - as well as about every
different transport system available from cable cars to trams.
Very nice weather.
Hope you have your power fixed now.
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Happy to hear you enjoyed London!
Yes, thank you, my power came back Monday afternoon.
Luckily,
my apartment is in an old house with steam radiators (more properly
convectors according to a friend) and uses gas to heat the water. So so
the apartment stayed warm (but internetless and lightless).
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This is NOT typical February weather. Last year at this time much of
the UK was inches deep in snow and there were NO daffodils to be seen.
Even up here in Scotland we have crocus, daffodils, forsythia and
swelling buds. My grass is beginning to grow again. More normal weather
will arrive by the weekend but still not expected to get really cold for
the next couple of weeks.
I'm glad you enjoyed London, there are
some amazing sights but I'm always relieved to leave and have some wide
open spaces more or less to myself. I suppose I'm just not an urban
animal even though life is much easier if you don't live too far away
from a city (public transport, hospitals to name just two items of
increasing importance with age).
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You certainly did well to catch London this week around Hurlock! Dry and warm and sunny each day. Well done! :D
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Pancake day is coming up everybody (5th March). I felt inspired by
Michael's Dockside Gallery exhibit (looks like pancake ice) to see if we
can come up with a variety of pancake ice pictures. Have to admit that
the home created variety with lemon and sugar probably taste a lot
better - but it's nice to have nature's inspiration :D
For the ice hunters. Emma Bay (Bukhta Komsomol'skaya) , Eastern Siberia.
(https://i.imgur.com/WXjrtW7.jpg?1)
As Randi kindly pointed out - I got this patch of ice wrong - pancakes don't come with pointy corners - oops! ;) ;D
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(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/18/2424455600000578-0-image-a-3_1418918844186.jpg)
Anyone for a VERY cold game of frisbee?
Bizarre
'ice pancakes' the size of dinner plates found floating on a Scottish
river
(https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2879346/Ice-pancakes-floating-Scottish-river-Bizarre-formations-occur-frozen-crystals-collect-circular-disks.html)
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Those are real pancakes - nice picture Randi. :D That happened
on the Dee. Rona got a picture of them if I recall correctly:D
I found an interesting video about the formation of pancake ice:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/nt690bQqyVc
Oh dear - I really wish I had some pancakes for tea :-[ :-\
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Great find!
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For more general ice formation info see.
https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/characteristics/formation.html
(https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/characteristics/formation.html)
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Thanks!
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Supplements Won?t Prevent Dementia. But Old Weather Transcribing
Might.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/health/dementia-prevention-supplements.html?fallback=0&recId=1HxTQPQtjUkTjuRmwg3snlzda1x&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=PA&recAlloc=top_conversion&geoCountry=US&blockId=most-popular&imp_id=183332804&action=click&module=trending&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer)
OK, the article doesn't say that explicitly, but it says
...the
panel endorsed just three interventions "supported by encouraging but
inconclusive evidence," to prevent, delay or slow cognitive decline.
The three:
- Increased physical activity;
- Blood pressure management for people with hypertension, particularly in midlife;
- And cognitive training.
That
last recommendation doesn't necessarily refer to commercial online
brain games, said Dr. Kristine Yaffe, a neuropsychiatrist and
epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who
served on the panel.
"It's really the concept of being mentally
active," she said. "Find something you enjoy where you're learning
something new, challenging and stimulating your brain."
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:)
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"Find something you enjoy where you're learning something new, challenging and stimulating your brain."
[/quote]
Apparently
learning Chinese is very stimulating to the brain. I have very few
talents in the linguistics line - so I better stick to my whalers. At
least I'm learning how to spell Arctic place names - in every possible
way. ;) ;D
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Tiny bits of iron may explain why some icebergs are green
The
emerald ice may help shuttle an essential nutrient around marine food
webs
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/green-icebergs-antarctica-iron?utm_source=Editors_Picks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorspicks031019)
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Tiny bits of iron may explain why some icebergs are green
The
emerald ice may help shuttle an essential nutrient around marine food
webs
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/green-icebergs-antarctica-iron?utm_source=Editors_Picks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorspicks031019)
That's amazing. The jade bergs shown are so beautiful :)
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Happy Birthday to the 'World Wide
Weather Web" it's 30 today.
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Happy Birthday to the 'World Wide Weather Web" it's 30 today.
Cor Stuart - that's an amazing event. :D
(https://i.imgur.com/05zF4Fn.png)
What's
sad is - as a computer 'function' it can't blow the candles out, can't
make a wish, and can't get excited over what's beneath the wrapping
paper on its presents. Well - that's no fun is it? :-\ :-[ :o ;)
;D
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Happy Birthday to the 'World Wide Weather Web" it's 30 today.
Hmmmm. AOL Online, Netscape, Mosaic, modems. It seems like just yesterday...
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(https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Model500-telephone_p22.jpg)
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I still have one of those & it works!! It sits down in my workshop and is 'hardwired' in case the power goes. ;)
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Nice one Randi! :D Our first (and last) phone at the family
home looked just like that :D Amazingly it could predict how the
bus traffic was flowing during afternoon rush hour. How so? Well
our number was just one digit different to the local Bus Garage. At
about 5 pm on many a night it would go with lots of angry customers
asking where there bus was. Snow would herald mayhem :-[
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We couldn't afford a private line, so we were on a 4-party
line. Our line was shared with three other neighbors. When
you wanted to dial out you had to be careful to listen for a dial tone
first. If you didn't hear the tone, one of the neighbors was
likely in a call and you would hear their ongoing conversation. If
you weren't careful, you might pick up your phone when there was a lull
in their conversation, and forgetting to wait for the dial tone first,
start dialing. Then you'd hear an irate, "HEY, we're on the
line!!!" >:(
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The good old days ;D
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The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier
In
1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the
Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the
lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be. Earlier this
year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/magazine/uss-wasp-lost-world-war-ii-aircraft-carrier.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190314&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=79267039ion%3DlongRead§ion=longRead&te=1)
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All this discussion of old tech makes me feel young - the oldest thing I can remember is Windows 95.
I really loved the pipes screensaver on that thing, especially once I worked out how to configure it myself ;D
Hmmm... what will the world of tech look like when I'm the old one?
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The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier
In
1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the
Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the
lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be. Earlier this
year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/magazine/uss-wasp-lost-world-war-ii-aircraft-carrier.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190314&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=79267039ion%3DlongRead§ion=longRead&te=1)
That
was an amazing story Randi. To track that ship down in the depths of
the abyssal plains is really something. I loved the human side of it.
Shea's letter to his son - what a wonderful piece. :)
All this discussion of old tech makes me feel young - the oldest thing I can remember is Windows 95.
I really loved the pipes screensaver on that thing, especially once I worked out how to configure it myself ;D
Hmmm... what will the world of tech look like when I'm the old one?
Windows 95? - I came into Windows with version 2.0. Before that I worked with WordPerfect 1.0 on DOS ;D
I'd
completely forgotten the pipe thing :D I was under orders not to
allow things like that loose on my computer (which was called 'Son of
the House of Frankenstein' - it's a long story...) due to memory
restrictions.
When you are old you'll be searching your pocket
for your comput-ear. It's a computer, pea sized, gets charged up
by sitting next to your electric toothbrush charger, and fits in your
ear. It picks up on your thought patterns and solves queries. It can
remotely type documents back to any printer on your system. It makes
bookings for you so that you go for a swim and the gym when you feel
squished by office work. It gets you there by using it's sat nav to
operate the direction on your electric-motor skate board. etc etc. At
the end of the day it will quietly whisper the gentle count of sheep to
lull you to never never land ;) ;D
Now - where's the Patent Office? .... ;) ;D
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All this discussion of old tech makes me feel young - the oldest thing I can remember is Windows 95.
I really loved the pipes screensaver on that thing, especially once I worked out how to configure it myself ;D
Hmmm... what will the world of tech look like when I'm the old one?
I liked that one also, especially when the Teapot turned up.
Can you still get it for win10?
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Take a look here, Stuart - it's number 6 on the list, the how-to-install instructions are at the top of the article.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/10-awesome-screensavers-for-your-windows-pc/
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Computer Haiku
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Aborted effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
The Tao that is seen
is not the true Tao, until
you bring fresh toner.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
but we never will.
Having been erased,
the document you are seeking
must now be retyped.
Rather than a beep
or a rude error message,
these words: "File not found."
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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Take a look here, Stuart - it's number 6 on the list, the how-to-install instructions are at the top of the article.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/10-awesome-screensavers-for-your-windows-pc/
Thanks Mate. ;)
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How about Fortran before all these GUIs came into fashion? No
temperamental rodents, just your trusty keyboard and reams and reams of
paper!! [or yards and yards of paper tape when editing your program was
done with scissors and sellotape]
These pesky screens will never catch on and they must be bad for your eyes!!!
;D ;D ;D
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How
about Fortran before all these GUIs came into fashion? No temperamental
rodents, just your trusty keyboard and reams and reams of paper!! [or
yards and yards of paper tape when editing your program was done with
scissors and sellotape]
These pesky screens will never catch on and they must be bad for your eyes!!!
;D ;D ;D
That
and punch cards that you would carefully set up, organize, and then
DROP them on the way to the data entry port so you could pick them up
and try to figure the correct order to start.
Oh, Yes... and dial modems that you made the call and then set the handset in the coupler & hoped it worked! 8)
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That
and punch cards that you would carefully set up, organize, and then
DROP them on the way to the data entry port so you could pick them up
and try to figure the correct order to start.
OR
you put a rubber band round the punch cards to avoid this problem and
then forget to take it off before you put them into the card reader!
And great Haiku(s? - not sure of the plural), Randi.
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Oh yes, and the problems in wet weather (our computer centre was in a
different building) and sometimes the cards would stick together and
the computer would spit it out with an error message and you would have
to carefully riffle the pack and resubmit the whole lot and come back
next morning to see if it had run this time (my data cards filled a
whole box). The joys of running stats packages when you could only
submit for the overnight runs. Mind you, I was better off than a few
people who could only run at the weekend although I think they could run
a card check overnight but not process the data.
I remember
several years later at a different university trying to convince a
policeman that he could only read a data disc holding the X-ray analysis
of a forensic specimen I had done several years earlier by running it
through the same program because the data had been compressed for
storage. He found it difficult to realise that when you didn't have all
the RAM of current computers then all sorts of tricks were used by the
programmers to manage with the resources they had and declared fixed
format files which didn't have separators between values was one of the
tricks.
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Loved the Haiku Randi :D
I've recently enjoyed this one ::)
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
;D ;D ;D
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Years ago I had an idea for analyzing climate data. I submitted my
idea to my director in Ottawa, who asked the director of Climate
Services in Toronto. The Climate director was very excited about my
idea, and so I got approval. I wrote the program in FORTRAN, it was
several hundred lines, and I had to punch the cards on an old IBM manual
card punch. I had to learn the two or three key combination for each
symbol. For example, an A might have been produced by pressing the 12, 8
and 3 keys simultaneously. (I don't remember the combinations any
more.) There was no printing at the top of the card, and no sequencing.
So, I punched all the cards, sent them to Ottawa who then sent them to Toronto. Chain of command ::)
The
climate people would run the program, which would crash because I had
entered an N instead of an M in FORMAT or some such. They would mail the
printout and the cards to Ottawa, who would then mail them to me, in
New Brunswick. I would have to figure out which were the bad cards, and
then try to correct them. That done, the cards would be sent, the
program run, the results back with a different error.
Eventually a
kind person in the computer centre had the cards copied on a modern
card punch, so I could see the printing on the top, and the cards were
sequenced. Eventually the two directors decided I was mature enough to
communicate directly with the computer people in Toronto without having
to go through the two directors.
And, in the end, my program worked just fine, as was a second one and I, and others, used the results from them for years.
The old ways weren't always the best ways.
Here is what my punch looked like.
(http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-DOR2012-2424&max=1000)
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:o :o :o
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At least my card punches were 'modern' with a Qwerty keyboard &
number pad. The latest one even had a Verify function. (it didn't
actually punch the card, it just checked that what you typed the 2nd
time matched what you had punched the 1st time and pinged if you
hadn't). At least that picked up the typos if not the actual errors. The
trick was to Verify on a 2nd visit in the hope that at least any typing
errors the 2nd time would be different.
The joy when they got
enough cash to purchase a punch with the ability to PRINT across the top
of the card - you can imagine the competition to book that one.
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;D ;D ;D
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Oh gosh - that ancient piece of kit! Were the numbers still calculated on an abacus? ;)
Seriously - I am so impressed by you who went through all the development phases of computing :D
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Loved the haiku's, Randi - thanks for posting! ;D
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The haikus are great - thanks much, Randi!
I am suddenly very thankful for being a programmer in this age and time, and not in the age of punch cards!
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My first experience with computers, programs were stored on punched
paper tapes. If the tape got torn, you were out of luck.
Every time the air conditioning came on, the computer would crash and
you'd have to reboot the computer by entering machine code on the front
panel, bit by bit, with machine instructions to read in the operating
system from paper tapes. And then after all that, you would load
your program back in again from paper tape, and resume working until the
next time the air conditioner came on.
This was in
college. You signed up in advance for 15 minutes on the computer,
and hoped that it was running during your 15 minutes.
On my last
job, we had a Linux server that had been running non-stop for over three
years. We eventually had to shut it down to upgrade the operating
system.
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I never 'used' one of those but when I was in the 6th form we went
for a day to visit a local firm who had an old valve computer. It
occupied a whole air conditioned room. They kept it for some admin jobs
but had a newer one for their research work and in its 'spare' time
invited 6th formers for their first computer experience. I managed to
program a fahrenheit to centigrade conversion table and was very proud
of myself. I kept that first roll of paper tape until I went to Uni when
it got lost somewhere. I do remember you had to 'poke' every bit of
data into its memory slot and you didn't have very many of them! It was
built just after WW2 and was one of the early commercial computers when
these things were cutting edge.
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8)
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I'm impressed too studentforever :D 8) :D
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My earliest computer memory is having to attend a programming course
when I was at university - this would have been around 1970. It
was during the Easter vacation, so I wasn't best pleased about it, and I
was convinced computers were just a fad and would never catch on.
When it came to writing a small program of our own it was emphasised
that we absolutely must not under any circumstances miss out a
semi-colon where required, or the computer would just loop round for
ever and ever. Guess who was the only student on the course to
omit a semi-colon? :(
(At least I think it was semi-colons that were critical - it's possible it was some other punctuation mark!)
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Truthfully I am STILL doing 'punch cards' - actually rolls - and having fun at it!!
I
volunteer as a Maintenance Tech at the Herschell Carrousel Factory
Museum and have been studying under our Organ Master. I don't make the
Masters but I am learning how to cut the rolls & make music. I get
to operate our 7 Band organs. ;D ;D ;D
Check it out! https://youtube.com/embed/bjj66yc_Rto
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Very nice!
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That looks like it would be good fun to maintain the organs and carousels (and cleaner than my trains).
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8) 8) 8)
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Fun!! Do you ever get a ride?
But to introduce a sombre note.
This reminds us that even in my lifetime men risked, and lost, their
lives trying to save others at sea. Then others came forward to take
their place, an act of cold-blooded courage which fills me with awe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47582287
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Truthfully I am STILL doing 'punch cards' - actually rolls - and having fun at it!!
I
volunteer as a Maintenance Tech at the Herschell Carrousel Factory
Museum and have been studying under our Organ Master. I don't make the
Masters but I am learning how to cut the rolls & make music. I get
to operate our 7 Band organs. ;D ;D ;D
Check it out! https://youtube.com/embed/bjj66yc_Rto
That was fun Dean. :D :D :D
Fun!! Do you ever get a ride?
But
to introduce a sombre note. This reminds us that even in my lifetime
men risked, and lost, their lives trying to save others at sea. Then
others came forward to take their place, an act of cold-blooded courage
which fills me with awe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47582287
I remember that on the news. :(
The
previous year we'd been to see the opening of the St Ives station (or
possibly it was the first trip out for a new boat) when we were on
holiday. We always had great respect for the lifeboatmen. Dad had been
in the navy and new what it was like to be caught out in a storm, albeit
in a small destroyer. This was a terrible event. Over the years
that I've been a member of the RNLI the science that has poured into it
has made transformed the boats. A lot of people don't realise that
they undertake to get you and your boat back to shore. Needless to say
the boat comes last in the priority list in case of loss of life or
limb. They don't seek Government funding because it's at the whim of the
treasury, and might adversely affect the voluntary donations from the
wonderful public. After every trip out (even if it was a horror story
trip) the crew don't leave for home until the boat is ready to go back
out (usually other volunteers get cracking with this) and the reports
are written. I take my hat off to them any hour of the night or
day. :D
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Truthfully I am STILL doing 'punch cards' - actually rolls - and having fun at it!!
I
volunteer as a Maintenance Tech at the Herschell Carrousel Factory
Museum and have been studying under our Organ Master. I don't make the
Masters but I am learning how to cut the rolls & make music. I get
to operate our 7 Band organs. ;D ;D ;D
Check it out! https://youtube.com/embed/bjj66yc_Rto
8)
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Truthfully I am STILL doing 'punch cards' - actually rolls - and having fun at it!!
I
volunteer as a Maintenance Tech at the Herschell Carrousel Factory
Museum and have been studying under our Organ Master. I don't make the
Masters but I am learning how to cut the rolls & make music. I get
to operate our 7 Band organs. ;D ;D ;D
Check it out! https://youtube.com/embed/bjj66yc_Rto
8)
Yes.
Once in a while I DO get to ride. I'm a certified ride operator on the
1916 Herschell #1 Special (original & a National Historic
Monument) The really cool part is working above it with all the
gears & stuff. Our web site is under repair at the moment but
as soon as it is back up I'll share & you can see more!
;)
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I was tinkering around on the Mensa website, and dreaming that there
would be a Citizen Science section, so I decided to look at what
special interest groups they have, and how many postings each group had.
I had a bit of laugh when I spotted quite how far ahead of the rest of
the field are Star Trek and Video Games... ::) :-X ;D
(https://i.imgur.com/hA39t6h.png)
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:-X
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I notice there aren't any for education and rock music and just one for classical music
:o
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I notice there aren't any for education and rock music and just one for classical music
:o
I
think I might have taken a wrong turn somewhere to find this group of
specials. I think there must be some mainstream groups because I'm sure
I've seen them before. They've rejigged their website since the last
time I visited :-\
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Last Friday's School Students' Climate Strike - some of my
colleagues manning a stall in Bonn Square, Oxford. I thought their
t-shirts were a great idea :D
(https://i.imgur.com/HxkitCF.png)
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;) ;) ;)
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Last
Friday's School Students' Climate Strike - some of my colleagues
manning a stall in Bonn Square, Oxford. I thought their t-shirts
were a great idea :D
Excellent!
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I'm sneaking a work request into the chat board - I will probably be keel-hauled for this :o
OWWhaling
needs more testing and I wonder if anyone out there might give a wee
bit of time to help please? Help from about 3 people would help a lot. A
few of you have kindly offered already, but a few more would be great.
:D
The job description:
What's needed - test out the 'how to get
your worksheet to transcribe your work on to' - test out 'this is what
you transcribe' - report back any weird or odd instructions to help get
them fully straightened out. No long term commitment necessary
:)
Pay rates:
- um...what's that? ;)
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The oldest known astrolabe was used on one of Vasco da Gama?s ships
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-known-astrolabe-was-used-one-vasco-da-gamas-ships)
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The
oldest known astrolabe was used on one of Vasco da Gama?s ships
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-known-astrolabe-was-used-one-vasco-da-gamas-ships)
That's
fascinating! They've go an amazing selection of astrolabes in the
Museum of Science in Oxford and, despite many trips, I've never yet
understood them. I'd need to go and work with one to get a hang of it I
suspect :)
Today I'm feeling jealous of anyone able to get to
this exhibition at the New Bedford Whaling Museum before it closes in a
month or two:
https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/thou-shalt-knot-clifford-ashley/
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March Temperatures in Alaska: 20 Degrees Hotter Than Usual
(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/09/climate/alaska-abnormally-hot-march.html?emc=edit_ne_20190410&nl=indias-election&nlid=7926703920190410&te=1)
By local standards, Alaska has been sweltering this spring. Temperature records have been set across the state, including in Kotzebue, where the thermometer reached 42 degrees Fahrenheit on the last day of March --- 30 degrees above normal.
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March
Temperatures in Alaska: 20 Degrees Hotter Than Usual
(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/09/climate/alaska-abnormally-hot-march.html?emc=edit_ne_20190410&nl=indias-election&nlid=7926703920190410&te=1)
By local standards, Alaska has been sweltering this spring. Temperature records have been set across the state, including in Kotzebue, where the thermometer reached 42 degrees Fahrenheit on the last day of March --- 30 degrees above normal.
:'( :'( :'(
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Climate change made the Arctic greener. Now parts of it are turning
brown.
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-arctic-browning?utm_source=Editors_Picks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorspicks041419)
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Climate
change made the Arctic greener. Now parts of it are turning brown.
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-arctic-browning?utm_source=Editors_Picks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorspicks041419)
:'( :'( :'(
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Evening all.
I will be on vacation from tomorrow until the 27th, and I will not be taking my computer, so no Ice Hunting or forum fun for me.
Early Happy Easter to everyone, and see you when I get back,
- H94
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Evening all.
I will be on vacation from tomorrow until the 27th, and I will not be taking my computer, so no Ice Hunting or forum fun for me.
Early Happy Easter to everyone, and see you when I get back,
- H94
Have a lovely holiday H94 - you will be very much missed :D
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Have a great holiday.
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Yes, Hannibal, enjoy your time off. I?ll be back to Ice Hunting in a week.
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I hope you have a fun and relaxing vacation, H94!
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Enjoy your Holiday! We'll be here when you return! ;D
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Happy Easter
Everyone !
(http://ghk.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/12/5508c85df30b9-ghk040115bobfamilyroomcraft01-iph1080.png)
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A very Happy and Peaceful Easter to you all
(https://i.imgur.com/Y0Y9MYb.png)
Down Easter Ship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Easter_(ship)) ;)
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The
Down Easter or Downeaster was a type of 19th-century sailing ship built
in Maine, and used largely in the California grain trade. It was a
modification of the clipper ship using a similar bow but with better
cargo handling. It achieved a balance between speed and tonnage such
that it made the wheat trade between California and Great Britain
competitive with east coast grain trade via steam ship. It could make
the trip between San Francisco and Liverpool in 100 days, despite
rounding Cape Horn and crossing the equator twice. A more unusual name
for the rig was shipentine.
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I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter candy...
Forget the
Easter Bunny. Let?s Celebrate the Easter Bug.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/business/lac-bug-candy.html?emc=edit_nn_20190421&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=7926703920190421&te=1)
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I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter candy...
Forget
the Easter Bunny. Let?s Celebrate the Easter Bug.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/business/lac-bug-candy.html?emc=edit_nn_20190421&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=7926703920190421&te=1)
It's
such an odd idea - less brown furniture to French Polish (uses shellac)
so use it on chocolate instead. :D (Got to say - I really
like unpolished chocolate which is why I miss Flake Bars :) )
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(https://www.alreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/AdobeStock_170021405-e1548335183494.jpeg)
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Happy Earth Day. :)
(https://media.giphy.com/media/IHS7SECJrH62Q/giphy.gif)
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Happy Earth Day to everyone :D
(https://i.imgur.com/L1bVawb.png)
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The
missing 1920 logbooks of the BEAR were found by one of my colleagues
sent to the Oakland Public Library on a recon. We'll have to figure out
how to get them scanned. Perhaps someone on vacation to the Bay Area?
Is
there anyone living in or visiting the Bay Area that would be able to
visit the library and have a look at the logs? Maybe even scan them?
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(http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Earthrise-Apollo-8.jpg)
Apollo 8's Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World
Half
a century ago today, a photograph from the moon helped humans
rediscover Earth.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/science/earthrise-moon-apollo-nasa.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190422&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=79267039on%3DbackStory§ion=backStory&te=1)
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It's still a fabulous picture - I find it moves me every time. I think it's the most replicated picture ever?
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New York Attorney General to Investigate Facebook Email Collection
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/technology/facebook-new-york-attorney-general-investigation.html?emc=edit_ne_20190425&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=7926703920190425&te=1)
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And again (https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/04/23/Facebook-Sneaky-Sniper-Targeting/), another shady practice.
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Just spotted this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-48044822
HMS Caroline has been nominated for museum of the year.
Odd
that she is nominated this year when she was opened in 2016, but it is a
wonderful museum. I think I need another audit in Nothern Ireland.
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And again (https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/04/23/Facebook-Sneaky-Sniper-Targeting/), another shady practice.
Alarming!
Read it.
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And again (https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/04/23/Facebook-Sneaky-Sniper-Targeting/), another shady practice.
Alarming!
Read it.
Read it - sob! :'( Not a good way to behave >:(
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The
missing 1920 logbooks of the BEAR were found by one of my colleagues
sent to the Oakland Public Library on a recon. We'll have to figure out
how to get them scanned. Perhaps someone on vacation to the Bay Area?
Is
there anyone living in or visiting the Bay Area that would be able to
visit the library and have a look at the logs? Maybe even scan them?
Too
bad I wasn't involved with OW sooner and we didn't know sooner. I
was making regular trips to Oakland every few months until
recently. I don't have any reason to go back down there now
though.
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Hello all,
I'm back - my vacation was great, apart from the
OW withdrawal symptoms. Been looking forward to getting back into Ice
Hunting, and catching up on the forum.
Unfortunately, there will be no Dockside Gallery pic today, as I am tired and jetlagged. Sorry.
Belated Happy Earth Day, everyone!
- H94
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Hi H94 ;D
Great to see you back and happy to hear that
you had a great vacation. OW withdrawal symptoms - nothing you can do
about that now - addiction can be severe ;) ;)
We'll look forward to a gallery entry when you've got your mind back in step with your local clocks :D
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Welcome home !
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I'm glad that you're back! Jet-lagged! The Garden State then?
I had the same OW withdrawals when I was in Menlo Park, CA. ;)
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No, the Empire State!
I was visiting my older brother, who lives
in Cold Spring Harbor. We did a lot of stuff in NYC, such as the
Botanical Gardens in the Bronx, a boat tour around Manhattan, several
museums, and walking around Fifth Avenue and Brooklyn.
It was really great, we both enjoyed it a lot. I'm so glad I had the idea, and we were able to take time off for it.
And we got really lucky with the weather - there was only one bad rainy day, the rest were sunny or cloudy.
I'll be posting some pictures in a few days.
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Looking forward to seeing those - I went to NY back in about 1982. :D
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Wow, New York City! What a great place to spend some time. I was
there, just for three days, back in 1971. It wasn't long enough. We took
the boat tour around Manhattan, and we climbed to the crown of the
Statue of Liberty. We couldn't go up to the torch, they were doing some
work on it at the time.
Here are some photos from September,
1971, the Labour Day weekend. It will be interesting to see how much has
changed. You can see it was very hazy. I wonder if the air is cleaner
now.
(https://i.imgur.com/EAdD1ZL.jpg?2)
(https://i.imgur.com/u2amh0N.jpg?1)
(https://i.imgur.com/w4NEd70.jpg?2)
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Glad you enjoyed our State. I'm at the other end near Niagara Falls. ;)
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The Climate-Friendly Vegetable You Ought to Eat
Kelp
is delicious and versatile, and farming it is actively good for the
ocean.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/dining/kelp-seaweed-recipes.html?emc=edit_ne_20190430&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=7926703920190430&te=1)
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The Climate-Friendly Vegetable You Ought to Eat
Kelp
is delicious and versatile, and farming it is actively good for the
ocean.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/dining/kelp-seaweed-recipes.html?emc=edit_ne_20190430&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=7926703920190430&te=1)
Oh yummy yummy. I like seaweed.
Sheep
that have been fed on kelp and/or dulse fetch a high price. It's a
relatively common thing to do in the Scottish Isles I understand.
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Here are the promised images from NYC.
(https://i.imgur.com/p8yNLan.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/9uLITNN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/6odUhG3.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3s0RSK7.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/VXmsF95.jpg)
This
is the USS Intrepid - once a mighty warship, now an Air & Space
museum. Visiting her was one of my favorite parts of the trip!
It will be interesting to see how much has changed. You can see it was very hazy. I wonder if the air is cleaner now.
We
had very good weather! It was mostly sunny or mix of sun and clouds,
only two rainy days - and one of them was the return trip day.
I really enjoyed it, and so did my brother - we're definitely gonna do more trips like it in the future.
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I am glad you had a great time!
I would have loved the museums (especially the USS Intrepid) and the botanical gardens too!
Is the picture of the lake (pond, stream) from the botanical gardens?
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The air looks much cleaner! It sounds like a great trip. :) :) :)
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A global survey finds that the Arctic Ocean is a hot spot for
viruses
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/global-survey-arctic-ocean-viruses?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2&utm_source=Latest_Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest_Headlines)
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A
global survey finds that the Arctic Ocean is a hot spot for viruses
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/global-survey-arctic-ocean-viruses?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2&utm_source=Latest_Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest_Headlines)
But
all is well for the article quotes ?So you can swim in the ocean and
not worry about it,?. I'm trying to picture swimming in the Arctic
Ocean...brrrr!
However, joking apart, if those viruses can knock
bacteria on the head there may be a whole new form of medicine coming
our way? ;) :D
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However,
joking apart, if those viruses can knock bacteria on the head there may
be a whole new form of medicine coming our way? ;) :D
Hopefully!
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Hippo poop cycles silicon through the East African environment
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hippo-poop-cycles-silicon-through-east-african-environment?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2&utm_source=Latest_Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest_Headlines)
;D
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Hippo
poop cycles silicon through the East African environment
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hippo-poop-cycles-silicon-through-east-african-environment?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2&utm_source=Latest_Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest_Headlines)
;D
;D ;D ;D
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Here are some more pictures from NYC - I finally had the time to go through and organize them properly.
(https://i.imgur.com/2UQyv0d.jpg)
There were several unusually-shaped buildings in Manhattan - such as this one that looks like a Jenga tower!
Dunno if it's a New York thing or a general architectural trend.
(https://i.imgur.com/xYz4orF.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WmPMoVm.jpg)
The Hudson River is pretty huge - and over 500 kilometers long!
(https://i.imgur.com/2zcppf1.jpg)
Central Park is such an amazing place - parts of it feel like total wilderness, quite a contrast to all the skyscrapers!
(https://i.imgur.com/i1NzqyW.jpg)
Is this supposed to be intimidating?
(https://i.imgur.com/CkayOrt.jpg)
Comparison
between humans (left) and chimps at one year of age: There's already
pretty big differences, especially in brain size!
(https://i.imgur.com/kLYdfAs.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/4NdS89i.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/rhVdK8o.jpg)
Some
nice flowers from the Botanical Gardens - the jade-colored ones in the
last photo are quite something! I've never seen that color in a plant
before.
(https://i.imgur.com/u49Bw5k.jpg)
At the Botanical Gardens, we also spotted a snake eating a frog!
We
think the snake won, as the frog put up quite a fight, but eventually
stopped moving - perhaps the venom took a while to work (Garter snakes
do produce venom, it's just too little and too mild to affect humans)
We
also went to the Morgan Library, which had a great exhibit on J. R. R.
Tolkien - they had a bunch of his drawings and sketches and letters and
stuff.
That was really great - usually, you only get to see the
finished product of creative efforts, so it was really interesting to
see early drafts of characters and locations, or a map with notes in
pencil and ink, held together by tape because it was used so often!
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Wonderful pictures! Where is that helmet(?) from?
Sounds like you really had a good time.
I love museums - botanical gardens too!
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Wonderful pictures! Where is that helmet(?) from?
From
the Metropolitan Museum of Art - they have an Arms & Armor section
with a lot of weapons and armor from Europe and Japan.
Many of them were ceremonial, or gifts for rulers, so they had an insane amount of decoration!
And
yes, I did have a great time. If you ever make it to NYC, Randi, you
should definitely go for the Natural History Museum, the KGB Museum, the
Intrepid Air & Space Museum and the Botanical Gardens.
And a boat ride around Manhattan. That was one of my favorite parts of the trip.
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We seem to have a new icon image on the tabs for OW - or am I imagining things?
:-\
(https://i.imgur.com/4NnUm8q.png)
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I've got that icon showing up all over the place in my bookmarks,
not just OW. But Chrome does seem to be quite arbitrary as to what
icon it attaches to any individual bookmark! It seems to change
them all after any Windows update, then corrects the icon if I actually
access the site. ???
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I've
got that icon showing up all over the place in my bookmarks, not just
OW. But Chrome does seem to be quite arbitrary as to what icon it
attaches to any individual bookmark! It seems to change them all
after any Windows update, then corrects the icon if I actually access
the site. ???
Oh right! Thanks :)
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That symbol seems to like me. Have not tried the right thing to get rid of it yet? :-[
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Wonderful pictures! Where is that helmet(?) from?
From
the Metropolitan Museum of Art - they have an Arms & Armor section
with a lot of weapons and armor from Europe and Japan.
Many of them were ceremonial, or gifts for rulers, so they had an insane amount of decoration!
And
yes, I did have a great time. If you ever make it to NYC, Randi, you
should definitely go for the Natural History Museum, the KGB Museum, the
Intrepid Air & Space Museum and the Botanical Gardens.
And a boat ride around Manhattan. That was one of my favorite parts of the trip.
Did
they still have the Japanese Garden section please hanibal? It was
there in about 1981. They were calling it a temporary exhibit, but it
was due to be there for about 3/4 years. The courtyard that formed the
garden had rooms full of the most magnificent kimonos. :D
I loved the Met Museum. Everything was displayed in such an interesting way.
I
didn't get to the most of those museums. I wish that I had gone to them
from what you say. :D I went to the Frick Collection which
was good, but rather Victorian. Is the botanic in Central Park
then? :D
We
also went to the Morgan Library, which had a great exhibit on J. R. R.
Tolkien - they had a bunch of his drawings and sketches and letters and
stuff.
That was really great - usually, you only get to see the
finished product of creative efforts, so it was really interesting to
see early drafts of characters and locations, or a map with notes in
pencil and ink, held together by tape because it was used so often!
Now I'm green with jealousy ;) ;D
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Aha! That explains the odd green glow in the eastern sky!
You may have noticed an odd green glow in the western sky ;D
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Aha! That explains the odd green glow in the eastern sky!
You may have noticed an odd green glow in the western sky ;D
;D ;D ;D Yep!
When
I worked at the English Faculty I was good friends with the academic in
charge of Tolkien's papers. She had to come out of the phone book when
the films came out. ::) I got some wonderful letters
correcting Tolkein's understanding of Elvish. ;)
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Just a few pics from my recent caravan trip with Janeece.
We also saw a multicoloured glow on the horizon, it was a Balloon glow. ;D and visited a Japanese Garden.
Caravan trip (https://imgur.com/a/8VWuC43)
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I get a very impressive painted silo, but if I click Next Post I get something from FrozenFoodGuy :(
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Hi Randi
Just scroll down through the 9 pics. No Next Post
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::) :-[
;D
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Looks like it was a great trip!! 8)
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I'm jealous. It did look like a lot of fun.
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Thought I'd post this over here because it's still making me chuckle....
Lucretia 1882-3 Log Section F 25th August 1883 (https://archive.org/details/lucretiasteambar00lucr/page/147)
The
Lucretia and the other members of the Steamer fleete of whalers have
been hanging around Point Barrow for a while getting boxed in by ice.
There's been no mention of any whaling action for a few weeks when
suddenly one whale strays into their area...I so hope it got away.
Certainly the Lucretia did not get it. In fact the Fleete enjoyed lots
of thick fog that year, that far north, nice for the whales ;)
And then she discovers a new definition of desperate...
'Saw one whale 15 or 20 Boats down'
(https://i.imgur.com/AqNSRBI.png)
;D ;D ;D
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There's a fascinating piece about the role of the Met Office in the
D-Day landings to mark 75 years since that event. I knew that the
weather was marginal that day, but the weather charts are amazing.
:)
One fact mentioned states 'Now Met Office meteorologists use
one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, which can do more
than 1000 trillion calculations a second, to help produce forecasts.'
Now - all you OW statistics folks - given the number of transcriptions
we've done, how much of a second do we take up please? :D
75th
anniversary of the D-Day landings and the role of the Met Office
(https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/our-history/d-day-75th-anniversary)
(https://i.imgur.com/8SUhWAK.png)
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8)
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8) 8)
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Milton (jd570b) has not been transcribing recently due to circumstances beyond his control :'( :'( :'(
Today (18'th) is his birthday, so...
Happy Birthday
Milton !
(http://smallforbig.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/soopsori_cakeset04_1.jpg)
A birthday cake for a woodworker!
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Happy Birthday Milton
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Best wishes Milton from Pommystuart.
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Happy Birthday, Milton!
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(https://crowsfeetcupcakesandcellulite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wooden-birthday-cake-with-candles-great-reserved-custom-listing-for-andrea-wood-birthday-cake-slice-of-wooden-birthday-cake-with-candles.jpg)
Best wishes Milton. :)
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A happy birthday to you Milton!
(https://i.imgur.com/Ft2eJXF.png)
:D :D :D
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(https://cdn001.cakecentral.com/gallery/2015/03/900_778028C8Zj_happy-birthday-for-the-woodworker.jpg)
Happy Birthday, Milton!
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Happy Birthday, Milton!!!
(https://i.imgur.com/mtV7DWE.jpg). (https://i.imgur.com/HXKEJUZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/w90v0mz.jpg)
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Belated
Happy Birthday
Tegwen !
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nu0FXBTwmpA/TMcRqooPpNI/AAAAAAAAB8k/hA2YOTLJ5EM/s1600/beehive+cake.jpg)
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Yes,
Happy Birthday, Tegwen!!!
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A very happy birthday Tegwen!!
Enjoy some yummy white chocolate cake ;) ;D
(https://i.imgur.com/pA0YTrY.png)
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(Sorry, Keith! I couldn't resist a bit of cake :-[)
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Happy Birthday, Tegwen!
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(Sorry, Keith! I couldn't resist a bit of cake :-[)
I
couldn't resist it either - it started with 4 layers ;) ;)
;D ;D ;D We've saved Keith's waistline :D (just don't
mention mine! ;D ;D ;D)
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Up in Utqiagvik (aka Barrow) on the first part of the annual field
work pilgrimage. I'm staying in a hotel across the street from the old
Whaler's Refuge, and beyond that the shore-fast ice lingers. From here
its easy to imagine the Bear anchored in the open water just beyond.
Except for the fact that the ice pack should still be down in the Bering
Sea this time of year.
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Up
in Utqiagvik (aka Barrow) on the first part of the annual field work
pilgrimage. I'm staying in a hotel across the street from the old
Whaler's Refuge, and beyond that the shore-fast ice lingers. From here
its easy to imagine the Bear anchored in the open water just beyond.
Except for the fact that the ice pack should still be down in the Bering
Sea this time of year.
Have a great field trip Kevin. I bet the old Whalers Refuge is an interesting place? Or is it just run down now? :-\
Well
the Lucretia (just been working on her) was near-ish Cape Navarin (Mys
Navarin) on the 28th May 1884
(https://archive.org/details/lucretiasteambar00lucr/page/195) (62.27774,
-179.09604) and she was stuck fast in ice. Seems you'd normally expect
more ice at that point further to the west, but even so...
(https://i.imgur.com/1WH3Uo3.png)
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The times they are a-changin! :'(
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The times they are a-changin! :'(
I'll join you Michael :'(
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Where's Waldo? https://noaapmel.smugmug.com/Public/Arctic-Heat/Arctic-Heat-2019/
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Thanks, Kevin!
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Whaler's Refuge, a few days ago:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219421800476145&set=a.1096854422019&type=3&eid=ARD4D7TJFgEggvt8Sxnxzya_2jJLe8-bpz192O5u6Tb_gTeFecQ6AseGshWJMU1QyK2yCiCM7oSehD7P
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Where's Waldo? https://noaapmel.smugmug.com/Public/Arctic-Heat/Arctic-Heat-2019/
Thanks Kevin - beautiful pictures - sad absence of ice for sure. :(
I
can't get to the facebook page with the Whaler Refuge on it, sadly. Is
there any other way of sending it please - but don't take precious time
over this. I bet you've got loads to do!
Joan :)
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Whaler's Refuge, a few days ago:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219421800476145&set=a.1096854422019&type=3&eid=ARD4D7TJFgEggvt8Sxnxzya_2jJLe8-bpz192O5u6Tb_gTeFecQ6AseGshWJMU1QyK2yCiCM7oSehD7P
It isn't working for me either...
Sorry, this content isn't available right now
The link you followed may have expired, or the page may only be visible to an audience you're not in.
Go back to the previous page ? Go to News Feed ? Visit our Help Center
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This is what I get:
The link you followed may have expired, or the page may only be visible to an audience you're not in.
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Here is Kevin's picture:
(https://i.imgur.com/OXJPh7q.jpg)
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I stopped going down there though 'cause p-bears kept popping up from the beach...
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Great picture - thank you Kevin and Randi.
And the polar bears weren't there to play peek-a-boo I bet! :o
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You can see the open water just past the shore fast ice. I was just
transcribing Bear for 1923. She reported ice near Nome on June 10, which
is 400 miles south of Barrow. :'(
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I spotted that too Michael. I've had a few reports from the early
1880s of finding a bit of free water between the pack and the land.
Hmmmm. :'(
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I had one where the Bear had to use dogsleds on the ice to transport
people and supplies between her and Nome - don't think they would need
to do that today :(
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Yes, I saw a couple of pages saying ice kept them out of a harbor :'(
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Happy Birthday
Helen !
(https://hungryquebbie.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/img_0484.jpg?w=675&h=382)
To Make a Rich Seed Cake Called the Nun's Cake (https://recipes.history.org/2011/11/to-make-a-rich-seed-cake-called-the-nuns-cake/)
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Happy Birthday, Helen!
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Happy Birthday, Helen!!!
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(https://i.imgur.com/rEVmO4T.png)
"...and the card reads 'Happy Birthday Helen'"
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(VERY, VERY GOOD, Joan)
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(You set the standard Randi ;D)
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Happy Birthday, Helen! Hope you get to do something fun.
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Many Happy Returns, Helen!
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Helen
(http://bestanimations.com/Holidays/Birthday/birthdaygifs/happy-birthday-colorful-type-animated-gif.gif)
(again ;))
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Thank you all for your birthday greetings, and the very clever
pictures. The cake looks interesting (though I suspect nuns
weren't not meant to have anything richer than a rich seed cake, in
which case I've failed drastically ....).
I'm in Edinburgh with my mother, and we went out for a very splendid meal at lunchtime, so I've celebrated suitably.
I
really do have good intentions about getting back here, finishing off
the editing I'm doing, and getting on with something else .... (but you
know where good intentions lead!)
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Helen:
(https://i.imgur.com/mtV7DWE.jpg). (https://i.imgur.com/HXKEJUZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Pe4VikM.jpg). (https://i.imgur.com/w90v0mz.jpg)
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Thank you Dean - what have I done to deserve four greetings?
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Thank you Dean - what have I done to deserve four greetings?
You have contributed to four phases of OW: 1,2,3 and RN history editing ;)
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Thank you Dean - what have I done to deserve four greetings?
You have contributed to four phases of OW: 1,2,3 and RN history editing ;)
Of course! ;D
(Nice one hanibal ;D)
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Good answer, Hanibal!
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Thank you Dean - what have I done to deserve four greetings?
I thought for all your work with us and your always good advice & humour you deserved four greetings. ;)
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Thank you all - having (finally) got back to editing the Laburnum yesterday, I'm feeling rather less guilty again ....
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Sitting tight on a nest during a rainy day in Oxford...Swift-cam is back... :)
https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/swifts-in-the-tower-0
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:) :) :)
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Stuart is currently enjoying the mountain air at Wengen Switzerland.
Norway nexr then UK, then home then back to OW early July.
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Another alligator? Pittsburgh officials this time capture reptile in
Carrick
(https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2019/06/08/alligator-Pittsburgh-capture-reptile-in-Carrick/stories/201906080049?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=editors-picks-local-frontpage&utm_campaign=Headlines-Newsletter)
Pittsburgh is becoming the new Alligator Alley.
City public safety officials have once again captured an alligator, the third one found in Pittsburgh in the past month.
Police
responded about 6:15 p.m. after a 2.5-foot alligator was found on a
porch of a home in the 300 block of East Agnew Street in Carrick.
Officers were able to get the gator into a box, then took it to the Zone 3 police station in Allentown.
Animal control officers took the reptile from there to Humane Animal Rescue in Homewood.
No one was injured.
This was the third alligator discovered roaming the Steel City since May 18, and the second one this week.
A 5- to 6-foot-long alligator was found on Sebring Street in Beechview on Thursday evening.
Also, authorities captured a 3-foot-long alligator at the South Side Riverfront Park on May 18.
Police believe the previous two alligators discovered in the city were discarded pets.
Information about where the third gator came from was not immediately available.
Pittsburgh, of course, is far too north to be an alligator habitat. They could survive Pittsburgh summers, but not winters.
U.S. alligators live wild most commonly in Florida and Louisiana.
The latest alligator incident does not appear to be related to the previous two, according to police.
Police
remind residents that anyone who encounters an alligator or other loose
exotic animal should never approach it. Instead, call 911.
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Or perhaps it's yet another sign that we're warming up? Perhaps Florida is too hot?! :-\
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;D ;D ;D
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Stuart is currently enjoying the mountain air at Wengen Switzerland.
Norway nexr then UK, then home then back to OW early July.
Have a great holiday, Stuart - sounds like an interesting trip!
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Stuart is currently enjoying the mountain air at Wengen Switzerland.
Norway nexr then UK, then home then back to OW early July.
Have a great holiday, Stuart - sounds like an interesting trip!
And
if you could bring some decent weather with you, Stuart, that would be
great. :D Last year we were going through a heatwave and
drought. We just headed back to winter ::)
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Happy Birthday
Hanibal94 !
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Happy Birthday
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Happy Birthday!
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H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y H A N I B A L :)
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Have a fabulous and dashing birthday Hanibal ;D
(https://i.imgur.com/yOPZRX6.png?1)
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(Randi - that cake is EPIC !!! 8) 8) 8) )
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Happy Birthday, Hanibal!!!
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Not quite sure where to post this so do feel free to re-position it.
The
good old Beeb has reported this fab new map of Greenland which may be
of interest to those of you whose ships are round there
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48611983
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48611983
Very sobering details. It sounds like too much of it will match its name :-[ :-\ :(
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Happy Birthday, Hanibal!
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Happy Birthday Hanibal!!
(https://i.imgur.com/kURjQ7T.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/aVXZ1jZ.jpg)
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Happy (belated) birthday, hannibal!
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For all those who recall the worrying time that the Jeannette had
being circled around the Arctic in pack ice for 18 months...some new
folk are taking up the scientific benefits of being stuck in frozen sea
water....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/science/arctic-sea-ice-expedition-to-study-climate-change/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f8bff7186f76
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(Sorry, Keith! I couldn't resist a bit of cake :-[)
I
couldn't resist it either - it started with 4 layers ;) ;)
;D ;D ;D We've saved Keith's waistline :D (just don't
mention mine! ;D ;D ;D)
Belated
thank you all so much for the birthday wishes. I have to admit that I
didnt see them when they were posted as I was away for a while, mainly
with work.
Thanks also to Randi for the link, I am amazed how
well you chaps manage & keep the forum going & clearly know who
has checked which post. You are an amazing crew.
My waistline suffered significantly without the cake!!
Thank you all.
Keith
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I have just bought something amazing from Ebay, almost without realising it.
It
was advertised as a photo album of HMS Yarmouth pictures, with no
indication of the number of photos & only a couple of pictures to
show the type. As I had some pictures already from HMS Yarmouth's post
war trip round South Africa I was interested, and managed to get the
album for what I think was a good price. If it was just Yarmouth post
war it would have been a reasonably good buy.
However, the album
is over 300 photos, half of which are from HMS Espiegle starting just
before WW1 & going right through the Mesopotamia Campaign, including
pictures of all those ships that we transcribed, such as the Blosse
Lynch, Massoudieh etc. It includes pictures of the launch of some of
those Insect class gunboarts at Abadan. Also pictures of actions against
the Turks, and their aftermath. Also copies of captured Turkish
telegaph communications. A real historical treasure.
Just a bit
of a shame that we dont have Espiegle's logs from the Mesopotamia
campaign as we do for Clio & Odin, as well as for some of the
gunboats. It will be difficult to identify some dates etc, but many I
will be able to find as the ships tended to work together, at least in
the early stages of the Mesopotamia campaign.
The advertisement did not even mention Espiegle, let alone the Mesopotamia campaign, so all this was a huge bonus for me.
I
have never seen any of the pictures before, so I think they are
entirely unpublished, with the possible exception of a couple of
Yarmouth in the Panama Canal. The quality is variable, but some are the
best quality pictures of that age that I have ever seen & all are in
good condition.
I now have masses of work to do identifying
dates & researching people, ships etc. It shouldnt be hard to
identify who took them as there cant be many officers who were on both
HMS ESPIEGLE & HMS YARMOUTH.
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;)
A belated birthday present ;D ;D ;D
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For
all those who recall the worrying time that the Jeannette had being
circled around the Arctic in pack ice for 18 months...some new folk are
taking up the scientific benefits of being stuck in frozen sea water....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/science/arctic-sea-ice-expedition-to-study-climate-change/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f8bff7186f76
Very interesting! Thank you, Joan.
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I have just bought something amazing from Ebay, almost without realising it.
It
was advertised as a photo album of HMS Yarmouth pictures, with no
indication of the number of photos & only a couple of pictures to
show the type. As I had some pictures already from HMS Yarmouth's post
war trip round South Africa I was interested, and managed to get the
album for what I think was a good price. If it was just Yarmouth post
war it would have been a reasonably good buy.
However, the album
is over 300 photos, half of which are from HMS Espiegle starting just
before WW1 & going right through the Mesopotamia Campaign, including
pictures of all those ships that we transcribed, such as the Blosse
Lynch, Massoudieh etc. It includes pictures of the launch of some of
those Insect class gunboarts at Abadan. Also pictures of actions against
the Turks, and their aftermath. Also copies of captured Turkish
telegaph communications. A real historical treasure.
Just a bit
of a shame that we dont have Espiegle's logs from the Mesopotamia
campaign as we do for Clio & Odin, as well as for some of the
gunboats. It will be difficult to identify some dates etc, but many I
will be able to find as the ships tended to work together, at least in
the early stages of the Mesopotamia campaign.
The advertisement did not even mention Espiegle, let alone the Mesopotamia campaign, so all this was a huge bonus for me.
I
have never seen any of the pictures before, so I think they are
entirely unpublished, with the possible exception of a couple of
Yarmouth in the Panama Canal. The quality is variable, but some are the
best quality pictures of that age that I have ever seen & all are in
good condition.
I now have masses of work to do identifying
dates & researching people, ships etc. It shouldnt be hard to
identify who took them as there cant be many officers who were on both
HMS ESPIEGLE & HMS YARMOUTH.
8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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What a wonderful purchase Tegwen! I bet you lost some time turning those pages :D 8) 8) 8)
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Thanks very much for all the birthday wishes, everyone!
It was very nice. I went with my parents to our favorite restaurant downtown - a really good but really expensive tapas place.
I ate too much, because it was all so good - still felt stuffed hours later!
Also,
I have a nice summer break coming up: Next week on Sunday, I fly to New
Jersey for 3.5 weeks to see my maternal grandparents, and go to the
ocean and stuff like we always have.
And in August, I'll be spending
two weeks in Oregon and Washington with my dad and brother. We're gonna
do a bunch of hikes on the Olympic Peninsula - I know a lot of places
around there from the Bear's logs, so it will be very interesting to see
some of them in person!
That's quite an amazing find, Keith! I wonder if any museums would be interested?
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I am taking a few days break to take my youngest son Travis on
holiday to Blackpool as a treat for finishing his school exams.
Blackpool is a traditional northern English seaside resort full of trams
and fairgrounds both of which he loves. Travis has done really
well to stay in mainstream education this long as he has a condition
called Apert Syndrome which effects his physical and mental abilities
and he has always needed to have a lot of time off for surgeries and
appointments.
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(https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/269936/Gold-Star-Fractal-No-Background.png)
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Wow Travis! You got one of Randi's HUGE gold stars - fantastic! Well
done. I hope you enjoy Blackpool - you must be very brave ;D
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I hope you both really enjoy Blackpool. I was there in 1956, and I
still remember how much fun it was. And,of course, Blackpool Rock!
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If it is a fine day do go up the Tower. I remember the view was
fantastic when I was a kid in the North West of England. You are at the
wrong time for the illuminations but you can try the trams. Fish and
chips taste better when eaten out of newspaper (alas no more) with the
fingers in a force 6 wind (watch out for seagulls). Nostalgia ain't what
it used to be!
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Mozilla releases emergency patch for zero-day exploit in Firefox (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/18/firefox_zero_day_patch/)
The fixed version is 67.0.3. I highly recommend updating at once, especially as the flaw is being exploited!
Updating
Firefox is easy: On Windows, open the hamburger menu (upper right),
then choose "Help" in the menu, then "About Firefox".
On Mac, make
sure Firefox is the currently active application, then click on
"Firefox" in the upper left, next to the Apple symbol, and select "About
Firefox".
That will start the update process. When it is done, all you gotta do is restart Firefox, and it will be fixed.
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Thank you Hanibal :D - I'm off to do that straightaway :o
Phew - I was already updated :D
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Thank you Hanibal :D - I'm off to do that straightaway :o
Phew - I was already updated :D
Ditto
Ditto ;D
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Happy Birthday
SPHolmes !
(https://www.globalsugarart.com/newsimages/whaleOnlay_MG_0022_bottom1.jpg)
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A very happy birthday to you SPHolmes!!
(https://i.imgur.com/oZoZ4yi.png?1)
;D ;D ;D
(That is a stunning cake Randi :D :D :D) I hope we've found our cake knife?
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(I gave it away for our own good :'()
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Happy Birthday, SPHolmes.
(https://theredbootquiltcompany.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/bigger-faceplant-cake.jpg)
As for the cake knife, I'm not sure that was well thought out, Randi.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Hyenas roamed the Arctic during the last ice age (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hyenas-arctic-ice-age-land-bridge)
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8) 8) 8)
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Happy Birthday, SPHolmes!
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Hyenas roamed the Arctic during the last ice age (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hyenas-arctic-ice-age-land-bridge)
:o
Well that's just made the last ice age a whole heap happier
::) Sabre tooth tigers, massive mammoths, and now fast
running hyenas... ;)
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Happy Birthday
SPHolmes !
(https://www.globalsugarart.com/newsimages/whaleOnlay_MG_0022_bottom1.jpg)
Thank
you very much ! I'm afraid I'm writing a climate emergency plan at
present so a bit distracted! Thanks for all your good wishes!
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Thank you very much ! I'm afraid I'm writing a climate emergency plan at present so a bit distracted! Thanks for all your good wishes!
:o 8) 8)
We'll put the cake away for a bit if you are writing a climate emergency plan! Any way we can help? :D
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I stumbled across the following, which might interest you. :)
Ernest Gold and the First Operational Military Forecast 24 October 1916
The Meteorological Office was not involved in military forecasting from the outbreak of the First World War.
Although support was offered at the outbreak of the war the response from the British Army was that 'the army does not go to war with umbrellas'.
Attitudes changed following losses in the air and on the ground and the deployment of gas as a weapon on the battlefield.
Read the whole article here:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/library-and-archive/archive-hidden-treasures/first-military-forecast
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Sounds typical of the military. I remember reading about the dispute
between the Brits and Yanks over the timing of D-day, the Yanks didn't
believe in the short window of good weather where we established the
beach head. The responsibility of that decision is awesome, if they had
got it wrong thousands more men would have died for next to nothing. But
they went with the Brits and as we know now they got it more or less
right.
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A very interesting article. Thank you, Maikel.
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Goodbye, Chrome: Google's web browser has become spy software
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/21/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch/)
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Interesting, I've used Firefox for a while but by reading the link I
downloaded a whopping 'storage' and number of cookies to avoid paying a
subsription! Despite having pretty high privacy settings I now
routinely review the cookies every time I clear my cache - it makes
sobering reading, especially since I have no idea what most of them do.
It's is quite amazing how many sources like Britannica, the
Universities, your bank, the good old Beeb etc etc will download onto
your receptive computer. Even the Met Office gradually increases the
size of its privacy request until you can hardly read the info unless
you agree to let it download cookies. Google itself keeps demanding that
you reset your cookie preferences unless you open a Google account when
it will condescend to 'remember' your preferences - no doubt by
downloading another load of cookies. There are times I feel like
reverting to visiting libraries in person, except that they are going
more and more to on-line searching rather than printed resources anyway
and you probably have even less control over the privacy there which
will be subject to centralised settings. Anyone else for the goldfish
bowl future?
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All very sobering. I'm still having fun messing with their minds -
but I would be very unhappy to find myself struggling with them for some
rights. I don't know how, but it's got to be possible to curb these
monsters :-\
I'm with DuckDuckGo now
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Me, too, as of one minute ago. Thanks, Joan! :) :) :)
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Me, too, as of one minute ago. Thanks, Joan! :) :) :)
:D :D :D
And I thank Randi who came up with DuckDuckGo ;) 8)
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;D
I have been very happy with Firefox.
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I thought Duck Duck Go was part of the Dark Web?
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Not as far as I know :o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
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It's the search engine you use on the Tor browser, as mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
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True, you can use it with Tor, but I started using it long ago because Firefox recommended it.
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I use duckduckgo with firefox too :)
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Just downloaded it - thanks for the reminder. As a duck lover this is a no brainer!
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Here's a nice article
(https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23242953) about the
man who founded numerical meteorology.
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Check the lightening in Scotland just now!!
http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12
ouch!! :o
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I recall one evening when I was working in the Alberta Weather
Centre. We had 43,000 lightning strikes in about four hours Our
lightning detector would beep each time it detected a lightning strike.
It wasn't a series of beeps, it was a continuous scream.
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Wow - suspect this may be heading my way too.
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It was weird, quite a few flashes this afternoon but no real
thunder, rain quite light as well. It's quietened down now but the radio
was really crackling in the car when I was bringing the shopping home.
I
remember one August night, must have been 40 years ago or more and we
had a magnificent dry thunder storm. My parents were visiting and we
went up onto a car park towards the top of the Gleniffer Braes and
watched the display over Ben Lomond - the whole thing must have lasted
for 2 or 3 hours.
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Gosh - you folks have been through some amazing lightening storms then!
I
just took this snap of the infrared satellite view - you can see that
astonishingly dense lightening storm cloud clearing off into the North
Sea (pity any fishermen out there tonight :-[ ). The rest of the
country looks fairly quiet - time for bed for me. Hopefully a quiet
night ;) Sleep well all... :)
(https://i.imgur.com/rApnHjY.png)
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Rodgers was done in OW Phase III, but I wanted to re-calculate her
voyage, so I went through her logs again just for Course and Direction
data. This was probably posted during Phase II, but here it is once more
for all the new people:
Wednesday, November 30, 1881
65.64, -170.87
At
8.45 A.M. the alarm of fire was given with position of fire from
forward. Attached hose at once and connected Steam and Main force pumps -
Fire located in lower fore hold on port side. Battened down hatches,
two streams of water playing in fore hold. Connected up main boilers
& started fires under main boilers - Smoke not allowing donkey
boiler to be fired - Broke connection with Main Steam pipe from donkey
boiler, and attached Suction hose heading steam in hold - At 11.30 A.M.
winded ship by hawsers from after warping chocks - Broke out Kerosine
oil from Sail-room and placed on Poop. At 5:30 P.m. indications of fire
breaking out and slipped chains and made all plain sail heading the ship
towards beach - At 7.30 P.M. ship ship touched, let go stream anchor
and opened outboard delivery - lowered all boats - 10.30 P.M. succeeded
by means of Skin boat in attaching a line on shore - At 11.30 P.M.
ordered to abandon ship, fire having broken out forward and extending
rapidly aft - At 2.20 A.M. Dec 1st landed with all hands and hauled up
boats.
And so ended the Rodgers.
The
weather was quite nasty. Weather reports were given for the first 12
hours. Winds were Force 4-6 for the first ten hours of the day,
diminishing to Force 2 by 11 AM. Temperatures were between 10 and 20F.
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The only loss of life was One Eyed Riley their mascot dog. :'( :'( :'( for One Eyed Riley
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Happy Birthday
Pommy Stuart !
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9c/78/68/9c7868dd24f1e60148d8ffcb3ca74fca.jpg)
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Happy Birthday, Stuart!
and
Welcome home!
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Happy birthday, Stuart - hope it's a great day!
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(https://i.imgur.com/0UeCzW1.png)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
(Epic cake Randi! ;D )
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Happy Birthday, Stuart!
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Stuart:
(https://i.imgur.com/HXKEJUZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/kURjQ7T.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/aVXZ1jZ.jpg)
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Happy Birthday, Stuart!
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Well thank you all.
Came home with what I think is a dose of the
flu and a very sore heel from all the walking to the pub on board the
ship. :( ;D
Will be back on board OW in a month or so. Moving home in 4 weeks time.
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Oh dear - sorry to hear about your ailments. Neither sounds
very helpful for preparing to move house - hope they go soon and you're
fighting fit for the move.
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That's right bad luck with the flu Stuart! Was it one of those flu-from-the-aeroplane jobs? :-\ :(
Glad to hear about your move and very much hope that the flu will go soon then! :D
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Get well soon, and good luck with the move!
I look forward to seeing you back on OW when it's all done.
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'Fingerprinting' to Track Us Online Is on the Rise. Here's What to
Do.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/technology/personaltech/fingerprinting-track-devices-what-to-do.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190708§ion=aBreak?campaign_id=9&instance_id=10751&segment_id=15001&user_id=dbbc73506986ff107ba21face1c7410b®i_id=79267039ction=aBreak)
Advertisers
are increasingly turning to an invisible method that pulls together
information about your device to pinpoint your identity.
If
there?s one lesson to learn about digital privacy, it?s that we can
never grow complacent. Even if we secure our data so we are not tracked
online, the ad tech industry will find ways to monitor our digital
activities.
And so it is with the rise of so-called fingerprinting,
which security researchers are calling a next-generation tracking
technology.
What is it exactly? Fingerprinting involves looking at
the many characteristics of your mobile device or computer, like the
screen resolution, operating system and model, and triangulating this
information to pinpoint and follow you as you browse the web and use
apps. Once enough device characteristics are known, the theory goes, the
data can be assembled into a profile that helps identify you the way a
fingerprint would.
:P
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I guess we'll have to dig out those old Encyclopedias and search paper pages for our information. ::)
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And carry on looking up bizarre things at times. I sometimes look up
the price of nappies, skis, tonic wines, courses at Yale and Harvard,
size pettite dresses (like that would ever happen ::) ), men's
shoes, public holidays in Peru - that sort of thing.
Here's today's trip out (sad that it's Google Earth ::)):
The National Amusement Park of Mongolia in Ulaan Baatar
(https://i.imgur.com/wAa2sG0.png)
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I would have hoped that the kind of searches we do for OW would be a fairly confusing mix. ;)
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I was thinking that they would be indeed ;D
(And I research things on the internet and then go to the store to buy them ::) ;))
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(And I research things on the internet and then go to the store to buy them ::) ;))
;D ;D ;D
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Judging by the ads I get, I think I manage to confuse the algorithms without making any particular effort!
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DuckDuckGo.com may be a search engine to consider.
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Several of us are already using DuckDuckGo ;D
It came up in this topic a couple of pages back ;)
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The largest seaweed bloom ever detected spanned the Atlantic in 2018
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/largest-seaweed-bloom-ever-detected-atlantic-ocean-2018?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2&utm_source=Latest_Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest_Headlines)
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The
largest seaweed bloom ever detected spanned the Atlantic in 2018
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/largest-seaweed-bloom-ever-detected-atlantic-ocean-2018?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2&utm_source=Latest_Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest_Headlines)
So much is out of balance with this poor planet :'(
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Several of us are already using DuckDuckGo ;D
It came up in this topic a couple of pages back ;)
Sorry, been away for a while. ::)
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Grave robbers have been at it again. >:(
Dutch WWII submarine wrecks disappear from Malaysian seabed
Salvagers have removed HNLMS K XVII and HNLMS O 16 - and remains of 79 crew
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/08/dutch-second-world-war-submarine-wrecks-disappear-from-malaysian-seabed
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/766067018294ea380155f39cdab062b17159fd65/84_228_781_468/master/781.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9d14d8d6ff1c904166443c0a352a86ef)
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Sad but not unexpected I'm afraid.
As someone who is
fascinated by archaeology I am now very uneasy about some practices
there. In the UK things are better and any human remains are treated
carefully even if they are disinterred and subsequently re-buried or
stored in restricted places; for historic burials very often crypts or
disused places of worship. But when I think of the 19th and early 20th
century activities in Egypt and the Middle East then I cringe even while
I am gazing at the grave goods which were retrieved.
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Sounds like the ivory situation. Stop people buying the metals and the business comes to an end.
If
this metal is of a certain grade then make it unpurchasable unless a
permit is held and the start to finish route for the metal is known. It
won't stop stinkers from being stinkers, but it shows a real depth of
intent to protect those graves. :-\
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This has been a problem for many years. When the price of scrap metal is high people will go to any length to get it.
The
Japanese Submarine I-122 most likely laid the mines that sank both of
these submarines.. see the TROM of the I122 on the Imperial Japanese
Navy page combinedfleet.com
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Not only general scrap but these are of special quality for some
screening and construction jobs - they pre-date the nuclear testing so
have a lower intrinsic radioactivity which is advantageous in some
sensitive environments.
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Several of us are already using DuckDuckGo ;D
It came up in this topic a couple of pages back ;)
Sorry, been away for a while. ::)
I'm putting in a word for Ecosia (https://www.ecosia.org/?c=en). :)
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Several of us are already using DuckDuckGo ;D
It came up in this topic a couple of pages back ;)
Sorry, been away for a while. ::)
I'm putting in a word for Ecosia (https://www.ecosia.org/?c=en). :)
Well that's different. ;)
Will give it a try.
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Sounds interesting.
However, the number of trees planted by Ecosia users ticks along at a remarkably steady rate...
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Happy Birthday
Shesswin !
(http://www.mariannescakes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Dog-lover-cake.png)
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A very happy birthday Shesswin!
(https://i.imgur.com/hRntzLk.png?1)
:D :D :D
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What happens when the Bering Sea's ice disappears? (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bering-sea-ice-disappearing-arctic-ecosystems)
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(https://i.123g.us/c/birth_forhim/card/319741.jpg)
Happy birthday Dean
:)
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Happy Birthday, Dean!
And a belated Happy Birthday to Shesswin!
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A very happy birthday Dean. Have a whale of a time!!
(https://i.imgur.com/6LMCISI.png)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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What happens when the Bering Sea's ice disappears? (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bering-sea-ice-disappearing-arctic-ecosystems)
I'm not sure that I own enough tears to shed on this report. It's terrifying. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
But thanks for posting it Randi :) :) :)
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Happy Birthday
Dean !
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Deeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you get lots of neat presents!
Hope also you get to share with family!(https://i.imgur.com/HXKEJUZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/kURjQ7T.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/aVXZ1jZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/mtV7DWE.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/Pe4VikM.jpg)
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Happy Birthday, Dean!
And a belated Happy Birthday to Shesswin!
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Thank you all for the kind wishes. It was a relatively quiet day. My
friends at the Carrousel Museum had Ice-cream cake with lunch and I had
dinner with my wife. Ready to sail on into the next year!
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Thank
you all for the kind wishes. It was a relatively quiet day. My friends
at the Carrousel Museum had Ice-cream cake with lunch and I had dinner
with my wife. Ready to sail on into the next year!
Sounds like a lovely day Dean. :D :D :D
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Happy Birthday
Hurlock !
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/14/0a/b5/140ab5d5c55973245fb7337a58527f9b--nautical-cake-nautical-theme.jpg)
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(https://i.imgur.com/HXKEJUZ.jpg). (https://i.imgur.com/w90v0mz.jpg)
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Happy Birthday, Hurlock!
And may you have many more!
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(https://i.imgur.com/dLKb4vl.png)
Have a happy birthday and many more!
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(https://funny-birthday-wishes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Happy-Birthday-May-you-live-to-be-old-and-toothless-768x768.jpg)
To those who had a birthday I missed when I was away.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Happy Birthday, Hurlock!
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The Arctic is burning and Greenland is melting, thanks to record
heat
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/arctic-burning-greenland-melting-thanks-record-heat?tgt=nr)
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The
Arctic is burning and Greenland is melting, thanks to record heat
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/arctic-burning-greenland-melting-thanks-record-heat?tgt=nr)
'On
July 31, a record-breaking 56.5 percent of Greenland?s ice sheet was
showing signs of melting, DMI glaciologist Ruth Mottram told the
Associated Press.' :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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Happy Birthday
Kevin !
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yn-tkitjRXw/U0jX-Zhy7OI/AAAAAAAACqM/5YSsSVlos5Q/s1600/DSC00210.JPG)
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A Happy birthday to you Kevin
;D ;D ;D
(https://i.imgur.com/YAfIOzb.png)
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Happy Birthday, Kevin!!!
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Thank you all!
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Good one, Joan!
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Good one, Joan!
I'm awestruck by your ice-cake for Kevin. Even after his trip to the North it might be the best ice he's seen :o :'(
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Need a nice Great Lakes retreat? Bid on an historic lighthouse
(https://www.post-gazette.com/life/recreation/2019/08/10/Great-Lakes-retreat-Bid-on-an-historic-lighthouse/stories/201908110010?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=editors-picks-life-frontpage&utm_campaign=Headlines-Newsletter)
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Need
a nice Great Lakes retreat? Bid on an historic lighthouse
(https://www.post-gazette.com/life/recreation/2019/08/10/Great-Lakes-retreat-Bid-on-an-historic-lighthouse/stories/201908110010?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=editors-picks-life-frontpage&utm_campaign=Headlines-Newsletter)
Yes please! Though the climb up from the water looks a bit of a drag - best to go in and out on the high tide ;) ;D
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Oh dear. I should have seen those lighthouses for sale before I bought in to a retirement village.
I am sure I could have come up with some bright ideas to use them for. ::)
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I am sure I could have come up with some bright ideas to use them for. ::)
;D ;D ;D
(How's the move going Stuart? Well, I hope)
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I have found most of the floor now a lot of boxes have been emptied.
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I have found most of the floor now a lot of boxes have been emptied.
Jolly
handy things - floors. They stop things that fall off shelves from
falling all the way through the planet. Yes - very useful things I'd say
;) ;D
Sounds like you're doing well - well done :D 8)
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Chill zone: https://www.shetlandwebcams.com/sealevel-cam/
I've seen a lot of seal heads bobbing around :)
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Had to get my eye in then I spotted them cavorting round the rocks. :)
Years
ago I had a holiday in Orkney with my brother. One day we took the
ferry to the neighbouring island of Rousay. The ferry seemed to take a
funny course but I just assumed it was something to do with the tides.
Then the engines went to 'idle' and a crewman came over and pointed out
the seals basking on the rocks. They'd seen them on the way over and,
since they had a couple of tourists aboard, thought we might like to see
them close up. They were right!! Just one example of a super holiday
when tourists were still not too plentiful.
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8)
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Lightning struck near the North Pole 48 times on Saturday, as rapid
Arctic warming continues
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/12/lightning-struck-within-miles-north-pole-saturday-rapid-arctic-warming-continues/?wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1)
Arctic
sea ice loss may not be causing cold winters in the U.S. and Asia after
all, study finds
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/14/arctic-sea-ice-loss-may-not-be-causing-cold-winters-us-asia-after-all-study-finds/?wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1)
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Lightning
struck near the North Pole 48 times on Saturday, as rapid Arctic
warming continues
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/12/lightning-struck-within-miles-north-pole-saturday-rapid-arctic-warming-continues/?wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1)
Arctic
sea ice loss may not be causing cold winters in the U.S. and Asia after
all, study finds
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/14/arctic-sea-ice-loss-may-not-be-causing-cold-winters-us-asia-after-all-study-finds/?wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1)
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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Hello all,
I'm back from my trip to Oregon and Washington - it was really fun, did a lot of great stuff with my dad and brother.
Got
bad jetlag right now (nine hours time difference!), but I hope to get
back to transcribing soon. I've missed it, and the forum.
Belated Happy Birthday, Kevin!
Years
ago I had a holiday in Orkney with my brother. One day we took the
ferry to the neighbouring island of Rousay. The ferry seemed to take a
funny course but I just assumed it was something to do with the tides.
Then the engines went to 'idle' and a crewman came over and pointed out
the seals basking on the rocks. They'd seen them on the way over and,
since they had a couple of tourists aboard, thought we might like to see
them close up. They were right!! Just one example of a super holiday
when tourists were still not too plentiful.
We saw harbor seals and sea lions in the Strait of Juan de Fuca! I will post pictures in the coming days.
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Welcome back hanibal!! It's good to have you back. So glad to hear that you had an excellent holiday! :D :D :D
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Welcome back, Hanibal! I'm glad you got to see our part of the world!
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Good to have you back, Hanibal!
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Welcome back, Hanibal - hope the jeg lag goes soon.
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This is cool - https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
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Fascinating!
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I agree with Randi - fascinating - thanks Kevin. Still makes me want to weep :'(
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I guess 'cool' is not the right word, sadly.
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Thanks for the welcome back, everyone!
The first day at the
new job went well - mostly just setting things up and meeting new
people. It's gonna take me a long time to get all the names and faces
sorted out!
From a technical view, the work looks quite interesting -
much more than my last job. Also, the downtown location is pretty nice.
I think I will like it there.
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I am very happy to hear that!
I have a terrible time with names and faces myself ::) :-[
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Hooray for you, Hanibal! I'm glad your new job looks so promising.
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That's a wonderful first day report hanibal! I'm chuffed to bits for you! :D :D :D
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Hope all goes well. I'm still awful at putting names to faces. I
could meet old students and tell you all about their research projects
but names were a different matter. I could remember the names OK, I
could recognise the faces not too badly but matching the two of them,
definitely a C grade on a good day.
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Still one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/embed/vjtX4GJPFRc
Also
- I can't remember the names of people on my hallway at work. Like in
the next office over. And I've been there for like 18 years.
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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/?fbclid=IwAR1idcNO93_MWsMq9KOVFJgZcvZu9XnTBum8KaTAPcPLv66MuBVrRubC5ZE
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Hi Kevin - two good posts. That noise of the ice is so frightening.
You rarely hear comments about it in the log books which amazes me. I
went to a talk by Henry Brower, a current-day Inuit whaling
captain. He mentioned that some visitors make the mistake of wearing
good hard-bottomed boots when coming to see how a modern whaling hunt
works. Once the whales hear those heavy footsteps they scram. The Inuit
wear soft skin boots that make very little noise, if any.
The article about the climate change was as worrying as I expected.
I stumbled across this article as I was reading the above:
Why
Scientists Are Starting to Care About Cultures That Talk to Whales
(https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science/talking-to-whales-180968698/).
This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science
and society in coastal ecosystems and published in the Smithsonian
(April 2018).
A fascinating article about the feelings of whales
and how they are recognized by humans. For myself, I have no problem at
all in believing that animals can collect their own living memories.
This section of the article, touching on the length of a whale's life, astounded me.
Plus,
calves spend years with their mothers, developing the strong
mother-offspring bonds that serve to transfer cultural information, and
bowhead whales live long enough to accumulate the kind of environmental
knowledge that would be beneficial to pass on to younger generations. We
know this largely because of a harpoon tip that was found embedded in a
bowhead in northern Alaska in 2007. This particular harpoon was only
manufactured between 1879 and 1885 and wasn?t used for long after,
meaning that the whale had sustained its injury at least 117 years
before it finally died.
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US Navy to ditch touch screen ship controls (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49319450)
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This is good - https://350.org/rise-from-one-island-to-another/
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Anybody watched the TV show "The Terror" ? (The Franklin expedition not the spooky one).
Is it worth downloading?
Stuart
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This is good - https://350.org/rise-from-one-island-to-another/
Thanks for this Kevin - I'm sharing it on a Franciscan FB page I help to run.
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US Navy to ditch touch screen ship controls (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49319450)
It beggars belief really.... ::)
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This is good - https://350.org/rise-from-one-island-to-another/
Oh
gosh - that's very powerful Kevin - thank you so much for posting
it. Perhaps they ought to show it at the start of every session at
the COP meetings?
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Anybody watched the TV show "The Terror" ? (The Franklin expedition not the spooky one).
Is it worth downloading?
Stuart
Sorry Stuart - I can't help with this one :(
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Five best ideas of the day: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/ideas/ (We're number 2)
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Five best ideas of the day: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/ideas/ (We're number 2)
Great - an excellent start to the weekend!
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I couldn't put it any better, Helen!
Thanks, Kevin!!!
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:) :) :)
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Super - thanks Kevin! 10/10 for the Aspen Institute :D :D :D and 10/10 for us too ;) ;D
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Did anybody notice that the log book pages shown were readable. ::) ;) ;D
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Did anybody notice that the log book pages shown were readable. ::) ;) ;D
Yep - they must have spent an age finding those! ;D ;D ;D
Just started work on the Hunter - flower vase water instead of ink. ::) ;)
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Hello all,
As promised, I have gathered some photos from my recent trip to the Olympic Peninsula.
You can find them here: https://imgur.com/a/UvJpzDZ
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
I did indeed! Thanks!
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Excellent pictures. Good to see some of the places mentioned in logs.
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Fabulous! Did you see me waving in the picture of Victoria? Look closely.
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Beacons of possibility: Light stations offer accommodations to
travelers across the country
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/beacons-of-possibility-light-stations-offer-accommodations-to-travelers-across-the-country/2019/08/22/4d748e82-bf73-11e9-9b73-fd3c65ef8f9c_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1)
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Beacons
of possibility: Light stations offer accommodations to travelers across
the country
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/beacons-of-possibility-light-stations-offer-accommodations-to-travelers-across-the-country/2019/08/22/4d748e82-bf73-11e9-9b73-fd3c65ef8f9c_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1)
Sounds fun :D
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Great photos Hanibal, especially the Orcas!
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Hello all,
As promised, I have gathered some photos from my recent trip to the Olympic Peninsula.
You can find them here: https://imgur.com/a/UvJpzDZ
Enjoy!
Super
pictures Hanibal :D. The weather looks to have been
glorious. It must have been a lot of fun visiting those waters,
knowing what a history they have for us. And the mountains are so
impressive. Washington State looks magnificent. You'd need good legs to
walk around that terrain. :D
Glad that you got to see the orcas
and whales as well. I've heard that you can smell their breathe
when they blow - any experience of that one? 8)
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Beacons
of possibility: Light stations offer accommodations to travelers across
the country
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/beacons-of-possibility-light-stations-offer-accommodations-to-travelers-across-the-country/2019/08/22/4d748e82-bf73-11e9-9b73-fd3c65ef8f9c_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1)
Sounds fun :D
You need to make sure your lighthouse doesn't still have a working foghorn though ...
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Sounds fun :D
You need to make sure your lighthouse doesn't still have a working foghorn though ...
Very good point! :o luckily I've got my ear plugs ready... ;) 8)
(https://imgur.com/ZDztaAz.png)
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Inside the Franklin ships -
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/28/hms-terror-sir-john-franklin-evidence-recovered-arctic-ocean?fbclid=IwAR3XXXt93_g1vCZTAwYT_9Q1lQtrU1Vf6cUnLwIJWOoQS63t1-Ln1LOIXNE
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and raised the possibility that logs and maps have remained intact and legible after nearly 170 years underwater.
They are going to need experts ;D
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Bags a look at the logs.
John (Stuart) Franklin
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Inside the Franklin ships -
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/28/hms-terror-sir-john-franklin-evidence-recovered-arctic-ocean?fbclid=IwAR3XXXt93_g1vCZTAwYT_9Q1lQtrU1Vf6cUnLwIJWOoQS63t1-Ln1LOIXNE
8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
The images from inside the ship are remarkable.
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Amazing!!!
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Wow! What remarkable images. And there may be logs .... Can we stake a claim?
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and raised the possibility that logs and maps have remained intact and legible after nearly 170 years underwater.
They are going to need experts ;D
OK fine, the logs may well have remained intact - but legible?! ;D ;D ;D
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and raised the possibility that logs and maps have remained intact and legible after nearly 170 years underwater.
They are going to need experts ;D
OK fine, the logs may well have remained intact - but legible?! ;D ;D ;D
Oh that's a really good point - are we sure that Lieutenant Scrawl wasn't in charge of them? ;D ;D ;D
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Maybe we could fish out the ships logs using this Australian contraption and have fun doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hzxIcsL3KDo (https://www.youtube.com/embed/hzxIcsL3KDo)
;D ;D ;D
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::) ::) ::)
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Wow! ;D
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and raised the possibility that logs and maps have remained intact and legible after nearly 170 years underwater.
They are going to need experts ;D
OK fine, the logs may well have remained intact - but legible?! ;D ;D ;D
Can't be much worse than some of the Logs we have already done!!! ::)
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;D ;D ;D
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There's a giant volcanic rock 'raft' floating in the ocean. It might
actually help boost habitats.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/08/26/theres-giant-volcanic-rock-raft-floating-ocean-it-might-actually-help-boost-habitats/?wpisrc=nl_optimist&wpmm=1)
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https://www.loc.gov/resource/det.4a03426/?r=-0.253,-0.06,1.385,0.88,0
Here is a very fine photograph of a sloop of war -- could be the Jamestown, or at least the same class.
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8)
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Beautiful photo.
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HMS Hogue and Aboukir https://www.loc.gov/item/2004674564/
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Also RN https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.03030/
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There's
a giant volcanic rock 'raft' floating in the ocean. It might actually
help boost habitats.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/08/26/theres-giant-volcanic-rock-raft-floating-ocean-it-might-actually-help-boost-habitats/?wpisrc=nl_optimist&wpmm=1)
I
felt so full of hope at the start of reading this article :D.
Actually there's still hope from this story. Just so sad that it sounds
like it will not reverse the fortunes of the Great Barrier Reef. That
job is down to humans :'(
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Just in case you need to fill out any forms...
ICD-10-CM Codes
> V00-Y99 External causes of morbidity
>> W50-W64 Exposure to animate mechanical forces
>>> Contact with nonvenomous marine animal W56
https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/W50-W64/W56-/
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Do you have a favorite 19th century artwork that would illustrate
the original Beaufort Scale of 1832? Here, for example, is Force 10:
'with which she would only bear close-reefed maintop-sail and reefed
fore-sail.' https://www.loc.gov/item/2002698105/ Also, a line of poetry
or narrative of same.
And for reference:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/library-and-archive/library/publications/factsheets/factsheet_6-the-beaufort-scale.pdf
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8) 8) 8)
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For those who saw and were appalled by the unsigned statement
released on Friday by NOAA Communications: it was a violation of NOAA's
scientific integrity policy and was political in nature. From a
division-wide message from NOAA's Acting Chief Scientist this morning:
"You
know that the value of our science is in the complexity of our
understanding, our ability to convey that understanding to a wide
audience of users of this information, and to establish and sustain the
public trust in the truth and legitimacy of that information.
Unfortunately, the press release of last Friday violated this trust and
violated NOAA's policies of scientific integrity. In my role as
Assistant Administrator for Research, and as I continue to
administratively serve as Acting Chief Scientist, I am pursuing the
potential violations of our NOAA Administrative Order on Scientific
Integrity. Thankfully, we have such policies that are
independently cited as among the best in the federal community, if not
the best. Your NOAA and OAR management and leadership team
believes in these policies and principles. I have a responsibility to
pursue these truths. I will."
We will see...
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I'm glad that there are still people in the government with integrity and courage.
I wish him success!
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Me too!!!
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Me THREE!!
I am a Co-Op Observer for the Natl Weather Service and report every morning.
I
know how hard these folks work and am 'glad' to hear that rules were
broken but people will be held accountable. I hope the publicity
of the resulting facts are as widely shared as was the false report by
the president and the 'false' statement by NOAA.
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Me FOUR!!! :D
I hate these rotten events. You wonder if
there's another agenda going on and that this statement is a smoke
screen for a greater horror being visited upon NOAA...let's hope
not :-[ :-\
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The greater horror is being visited on federal and
federally-supported science in general. Hopefully we are near the
low-water mark and restoration will begin. Perhaps that may be true,
since NOAA is about the last agency left that hasn't been subject to
this nonsense. We've seen somewhat similar phases in Canada and
elsewhere in recent years...
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Around here I firmly believe that CONgress is the opposite of PROgress. 8)
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Ah, yes. Back in the 90's the Canadian government (Liberals) hit
Environment Canada and six other departments with a 40% budget cut to be
made over three years (1995, 96 and 97), with cuts of 10, 15 and 15% to
be made in any order. The seven departments were called MAD (Most
Affected Departments). The promise was that after the three years, those
departments would be spared further cuts. In 1998, which was Year Four
the Minister of Finance wanted another 7% cut from a several
departments. Our minister raised his hand, cut Environment! By
this time, morale was so low that our union argued that they just had to
wait a few months because people were leaving so fast that they would
have their 7% in no time.
Anyway, they made the extra 7% cut.
(One reason I have time to spare for OW.) Western Region had to lose 40
people (or 60). They asked for volunteers. 60 (or 80) volunteered! They
had to do a reverse order of merit, and let go the required number. The
20 best people couldn't leave. Of those 20, I think 8 quit outright with
no severance, 6 or so of the otherwise requested half time and the
others 3/4 time. This meant that after the cuts they were already
short-staffed about a dozen people. A few months later they were short
even more. They were begging people to come back as "consultants." A
couple of years later, I dropped into the Prairie Weather Centre in
Winnipeg while visiting my sister-in-law. The forecasters begged me to
come in and work the night shift, they were a person short and the
supervisor didn't want to work 12 hours overtime right after doing the
12 hour shift he was currently on. I respectively declined.
After
the Liberals we had the Harper government. ::) He banned any
discussion of climate change. A good friend of mine had to sit through a
televised "town hall" from the Prime Minister's Office telling them
that not only could they not bring up the subject of climate change, but
any question about it had to be referred to the PMO. Similar for any
questions about unusual weather etc. My friend got up, walked into the
OIC's office and put in her resignation.
Another friend of mine
did climate studies that would be used for updating Canadian building
codes. A reporter from one of the big newspapers wanted to know about
how the weather would affect building codes. Anyway, it took the
reporter and my friend six months to convince the PMO to let this
interview take place. The reporter had to submit their questions and my
friend to submit her replies. The interview took place with the PMO
person listening on the line. There was an 8 second delay or something
so the PMO person could kill the conversation before anything untoward
was said.
So, been there done that. :'( :'( :'( Don't have to do it anymore.
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In the UK we now have no voice at all. Parliament (parley-a-ment) is
closed to any parley at all. I'm heartily sorry to hear your tale of
woe Michael. It seems to me that it's an odd thing that one person can
make decisions in such a detached way. But we are the lucky ones in OW
to have your help ;) :D
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And when I tell people about OW and ice, I don't have to submit my comments to the moderators beforehand. ;D
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Sorry to hear about that, Michael. Truly awful stuff.
I too, hope that this is the low-water mark and things will get better soon. Greta Thunberg's actions are giving me hope.
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Greta gives me hope, too.
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...and me too. :D
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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/as-bering-sea-ice-melts-nature-is-changing-on-a-massive-scale-and-alaska-crab-pots-are-pulling-up-cod/
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Interesting :'(
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Yes. :'(
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Galvanizing article Kevin!
My head is buried in my handkerchief as I sob for the planet :'( :'( :'(
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A Wonderfully Happy Ever-so-slightly-belated Birthday to Randi!
(https://imgur.com/sHwBxIG.png)
;D ;D ;D
Hope you enjoy your Captain cake ;)
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Happy Birthday, Randi!!!
We wouldn't be here without you! ;)
Unlike Joan's cake, this one is calorie free!
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NNJVaOfxc8Q/UYzuUYf8P0I/AAAAAAAABVs/Az2fAVGz1gk/s640/mornar.jpg)
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Two cool articles (one about OW):
https://nexusmedianews.com/century-old-ship-logs-show-how-much-ice-the-arctic-has-lost-e3349bb7a403
and
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/14/when-weather-forecasts-became-political-228106?fbclid=IwAR0Sz54NJVsd1ibm6_-x3QJcEtINEx6_uUt1vkZEO0WpD2MabDM_zHA2EPM
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Thank you Kevin - both are engrossing articles :D
Two cool articles (one about OW):
https://nexusmedianews.com/century-old-ship-logs-show-how-much-ice-the-arctic-has-lost-e3349bb7a403
Super
article - well done Michael!! :D :D :D If I
were not already here that article would have me signing up :D
and
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/14/when-weather-forecasts-became-political-228106?fbclid=IwAR0Sz54NJVsd1ibm6_-x3QJcEtINEx6_uUt1vkZEO0WpD2MabDM_zHA2EPM
Yet
again the hand of greedy commerce intercepts good science I read the
story of the start of the Met Office. What happened to Fitzroy was
terrible and doubtless caused the loss of lives at sea - even on
land :'(
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Happy Birthday Randi.
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Happy Birthday etc Randi from downunder.
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Happy belated birthday Randi :-* :-* :-*
(http://cekart.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/home-library-designs-photos-small-home-library-design-small-home-library-small-home-library-ideas-house-design-small-home-library-home-decor-fabric-stores-near-me.jpg)
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Many, many thanks, everyone!
(burp :-[)
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Many, many thanks, everyone!
(burp :-[)
;D ;D ;D
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Randi:
(https://i.imgur.com/mtV7DWE.jpg). (https://i.imgur.com/Pe4VikM.jpg)
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Thanks, Dean ;D
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Scientists Prepare to Drift With Arctic Ice for a Year to Study
Climate Change
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/climate/mosaic-expedition-arctic.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190919?campaign_id=57&instance_id=12504&segment_id=17174)
On
Friday evening the ship, joined by a Russian icebreaker carrying more
equipment, will leave this port city in northern Norway, sailing east
for two weeks to the Laptev Sea, north of Central Siberia. There the
Polarstern will churn through the pack ice and sidle up to an ice floe
-- a large expanse of intact ice, chosen on the spot after analysis of
satellite radar images and other information -- and cut its engine,
allowing itself to be fully frozen in place. The Russian ship will
transfer its equipment to the floe and turn around.
Deliberately
trapped, if all goes well the Polarstern will travel with the ice along
a wind-driven route known as the trans-polar drift toward and past the
pole and eventually south, spilling out into the Fram Strait between
Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago 12 to 14 months later.
"We'll
just go where the ice goes," said Markus Rex, a researcher in
atmospheric physics at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany and
leader of the $155 million expedition. Organized by the institute, it
involves scientists from 19 nations, including the United States, and
has been five years in planning.
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8) 8) 8)
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Well that will be interesting. I wonder if they will be near the site where the Jeannette got stuck? :)
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Any cool suggestions for getting your Dell keyboard to work please?
Mine just stopped completely. There I was just settling down to record a
major bit of mutiny on the North Star and tap tap tappety
tap...nothing. :'( :'( :'( :'( I tried switching on and off, and a
restart. Asked the keyboard driver if it needed updating but it seemed
happy that it was up to date.
I got this second hand
Luckily have the old computer to play with. And my phone :-\ ::)
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Plug it into a different port? :-\ :-\ :-\
Or better yet, wait for someone who knows what they are talking about ;)
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It's a laptop :(. However you may have hit on something
because I was wondering if I could just plug a keyboard into a usb onto
the laptop. I've copied all my files onto an external drive....phew!
😉😀
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Yes, plug in a keyboard, if you have one lying around. When I was in
California with my little notebook, I plugged in a mouse, a keyboard
and a terminal.
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Have done that many times when teaching. ;)
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Thank you Michael and Dean! I'll give it a go. Currently
using the laptop that properly belongs to the Close that I live in and
that's for our finance work. It's OK. Screens a bit smaller but not too
bad. ;)
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This was posted on the 20th and picked up by Apple News Feed on
21st. Along with what Kevin posted on the 17th, this info is
currently making the news rounds!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a29127606/us-coast-guard-ice-data/
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Great!
Thanks for posting!
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Thanks for posting! It seems like OW is appearing in the news a lot more frequently than it used to.
Maybe it's because climate is currently a hot topic (no pun intended)?
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:) :) :)
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Thanks for posting! It seems like OW is appearing in the news a lot more frequently than it used to.
Maybe it's because climate is currently a hot topic (no pun intended)?
Not to mention the fantastic ACCURATE & CAREFULLY reported work done by our fabulous OW crew!!!! ;D
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...Not to mention the fantastic ACCURATE & CAREFULLY reported work done by our fabulous OW crew!!!! ;D
Yeh!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Something that may have a bearing to OW.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/what-happens-when-magnetic-north-and-true-north-align
(https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/what-happens-when-magnetic-north-and-true-north-align)
;)
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Something that may have a bearing to OW.
*bearing*
- nice pun Stuart ;D Very interesting article. The OS maps
always had some information on them about the difference between
magnetic and geographic North. I seem to recall that they also predicted
the likely time that they would come back together again. Reading that
article was an eye opener. Thanks :)
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:) :) :)
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Something that may have a bearing to OW.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/what-happens-when-magnetic-north-and-true-north-align
(https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/what-happens-when-magnetic-north-and-true-north-align)
;)
Since
freshman geology when I learned about it, I wanted to witness the poles
'flipping.' It's overdue. But I've since read that the
process takes 5000 years for the magnetic north to wander it's way to
the bottom of the globe. So not in my lifetime...
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Seems to me that I also read something about lack of protection from cosmic rays :-\
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I didn't see the popular mechanics one until now. I would guess, in
addition to the brilliant work of the amazing OW crew, is the plain
connection between the model result and the history with current events
is resonating.
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RRS Sir David Attenborough launched (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49829315)
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RRS Sir David Attenborough launched (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49829315)
Sounds like a very fine vehicle - I hope it brings great success in understanding the changes to the polar regions. :D
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And do not forget our little friend Boaty.
(http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/mcboat-1.png)
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And do not forget our little friend Boaty.
(http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/mcboat-1.png)
Absolutely! That little boaty has got some big work to do - good luck Boaty McBoatface! :D
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I just ran across this 2016 NPR article: U.S. Navy Brings Back
Navigation By The Stars For Officers
(https://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-back-navigation-by-the-stars-for-officers)
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I
just ran across this 2016 NPR article: U.S. Navy Brings Back Navigation
By The Stars For Officers
(https://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-back-navigation-by-the-stars-for-officers)
I
recall that Kevin posted a 'how you do that' set of instructions - I
wonder if I can find them? I think that this is a fine idea. Keeps
your brain sharp and it's a double check for GPS. All we need to do now
is to find out how pigeons navigate, get a bit of our brains trained up
the same way, and we won't even need the sextants any more. ;) 8)
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How about http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4305.msg99443#msg99443 ?
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I recall, from my time working on a military airfield many years
ago, that a Canadiann Argus long range patrol aircraft was well out over
the Atlantic at night and she lost all her electronics. The navigator
liked taking start shots for practice and was able to navigate back to
their base in Greenwood Nova Scotia. Before that time the crew would
mock him for doing things the old way when it wasn't really necessary,
what with all the technology. After getting them back to base, they
never mocked him again. In fact, other navigators were encouraged to
brush up on those old skills. ;D
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;D ;D ;D
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Just watching a programme on BBC Four called Voyages of
Discovery. This week features Nansen and the Fram heading into the
Arctic. They mentioned the fate of the Jeannette as they illustrated the
superior design of the Fram. Fascinating program - I hope that some of
you can catch it on BBC iPlayer. :D
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Just watching a programme on BBC Four called Voyages of Discovery. This
week features Nansen and the Fram heading into the Arctic. They
mentioned the fate of the Jeannette as they illustrated the superior
design of the Fram. Fascinating program - I hope that some of you can
catch it on BBC iPlayer. :D
Sounds good - that's gone on my list of things to watch.
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These tea bags release billions of plastic particles into your brew,
study shows
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/27/these-tea-bags-release-billions-plastic-particles-into-your-brew-study-shows/?wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1)
:-X :-X :-X
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Better living through chemistry. ::)
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You thought some of our log books were hard to read! Scientists are
using the Diamond Light Source
(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-49926789/herculaneum-scroll-shining-a-light-on-2000-year-old-secrets)
to try to read scrolls from Herculaneum carbonized by the eruption of
Vesuvius.
https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/News/LatestNews/2019/03-10-2019.html#
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8) 8) 8)
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You
thought some of our log books were hard to read! Scientists are using
the Diamond Light Source
(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-49926789/herculaneum-scroll-shining-a-light-on-2000-year-old-secrets)
to try to read scrolls from Herculaneum carbonized by the eruption of
Vesuvius.
https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/News/LatestNews/2019/03-10-2019.html#
Great find jil :D
That
is amazing. And they are so positive about its abilities: 'we
will forge a pathway for revealing any type of ink on any type of
substrate '. Some of our logs that were written in vase water should be
sent to help them calibrate their results. ;)
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;D ;D ;D
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It's a repeat - but if you're in the UK and haven't seen it, there's
a good programme on Channel 4 at 8pm tonight about the hunt for HMS
Erebus.
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These
tea bags release billions of plastic particles into your brew, study
shows
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/27/these-tea-bags-release-billions-plastic-particles-into-your-brew-study-shows/?wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1)
:-X :-X :-X
And not only do we ingest the plastic, the teabags don't compost either! :'(
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It's
a repeat - but if you're in the UK and haven't seen it, there's a good
programme on Channel 4 at 8pm tonight about the hunt for HMS Erebus.
Watched it for the second time around and it was just as engrossing.
When Melville was searching for De Long of the Jeannette he worked on Inuit information which helped him.
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These
tea bags release billions of plastic particles into your brew, study
shows
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/27/these-tea-bags-release-billions-plastic-particles-into-your-brew-study-shows/?wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1)
:-X :-X :-X
And not only do we ingest the plastic, the teabags don't compost either! :'(
I
only found out about this the other day when someone pointed out
that used tea bags were going into the food waste bin incorrectly. I was
staggered to find out that someone thinks it's a good idea to put
plastic into tea bags. I'm wondering if I can get that sorted out
at work. Back to leaves and use tea balls/teapots. If the Environmental
Change Institute can't sort itself out who can? ::)
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You go, girl! ;D ;D ;D
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These
tea bags release billions of plastic particles into your brew, study
shows
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/27/these-tea-bags-release-billions-plastic-particles-into-your-brew-study-shows/?wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1)
:-X :-X :-X
And not only do we ingest the plastic, the teabags don't compost either! :'(
I
only found out about this the other day when someone pointed out
that used tea bags were going into the food waste bin incorrectly. I was
staggered to find out that someone thinks it's a good idea to put
plastic into tea bags. I'm wondering if I can get that sorted out
at work. Back to leaves and use tea balls/teapots. If the Environmental
Change Institute can't sort itself out who can? ::)
You
may not need to go back to leaves as there are some plastic-free
teabags available
https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/food-drink/best-plastic-free-tea-bags-clipper-t2-pukka-twinings-a8982626.html
but you have to hunt around for them, and they tend to be more
expensive.
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Just bought loose tea - and had them put it in a Twinings tin I brought with me ;D
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Happy Birthday
BaroquePearl !
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/aa/b3/99aab369f25b73f3ccdd48cbe7243d30.jpg)
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Happy Birthday
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Just in case anyone is wondering why we bother
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49978007
:'( :'( :'(
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Happy birthday BaroquePearl!!
(https://imgur.com/OAXlSZw.png)
Have a fun day
:D :D :D
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Just in case anyone is wondering why we bother
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49978007
:'( :'( :'(
Oh No!!! This is terrible news for sure. I join you in weeping studentforever :'( :'( :'(
The Antarctic Situation is crazy. A lump of ice the size (almost) of the Isle of Skye just broke off:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49885450
PLEASE
- don't buy farmed pink fish (typically salmon or trout) because they
steal krill from the pengs to colour the flesh. :'( :'( :'(
Just off to post these on PenguinWatch - it's good to know the science - but heartbreaking.
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Happy Birthday
shiplover !
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xU5ZWBUBslA/T5wO9AwXgjI/AAAAAAAAKbc/lEEDK1F1BTk/s1600/GC1_0333.JPG)
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Happy Birthday
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Have a happy birthday Shiplover!
(https://i.imgur.com/qGkoRv8.png?1)
;D ;D ;D
Apparently
this was a 'Titanic' ship cake. Can't avoid a little joke that it
probably 'went down well' (like all tasty cakes of course ;))
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Happy Birthday, Shiplover!!!
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Happy Birthday, BaroquePearl and Shiplover!
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(https://i.imgur.com/mtV7DWE.jpg). (https://i.imgur.com/HXKEJUZ.jpg). (https://i.imgur.com/w90v0mz.jpg)
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NRyc4x00wfYOahCwxmRo9n36Q23cfRxVDUhrYK895HWWPxWQJyUwdeCjKcuR40AFobf9D5kIoWyRpexN3D96GZRDT2pBvqHVss8iCPA_hb9gOK0vDrDRm-dB-ssZQOKv0dfyRJS9WV0m08bRMjQBQFwjCcjgmxZoxk7xUvi2QjAALLP3vU24wsLFM29eNT-QOermINJEfk9wwx6JSn2QUBG3S2wYDZeVmM0njvm9BEvrw2MIx-YU6KgHcAUlH43aCRGUxlZ96qgf57Ll6rWQzXSyfri7fbwKHkBZJ5ttylooDbaKB2xO6f4p0TMhU9dGS7_X7T9ESagnC9JyiBThtHvIpcHkMGYmF-yT0mTHJLfc96BPumParArU3-phv_PDKWHpiIkd5JKiNBwnblggMX2zLTijdPCUQNyKjQ3sDCCJLiuQzx45NHYKkYDis13WVsocc7F0FXk3ZwUZddqoSKQs5JbSmu70wDKHas9fCjeAGS3T00wtLKvUgZ5RthfZSFbagoPa8WS0-5SZ0tmJFg4QniiJE0uzIrjZb1fZGS1VvtiC3UPsCMW4C6rp560WB7tNE52f-xwP0w9WrRp5S2Wc0zXJqQv1lbK5efNrIMkqkBEOsfR2KnV4H_nfbSYH-woC7ARjNirEJKScHK-H8LTp7r3rtwJGmu_DtRtoKjbsAWnNRG3PtgoHZvbqSn9213IwygZC6Rh6WDexeoYbECzY44hvilkHXFm-kTcr3SMick8b3A=w564-h441-no)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
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Ye gods, I've been with OW for over 8 years! I wasn't one of the
first but I started out when the Beeb first ran a feature on us. Well,
all I can say is that has been a fascinating experience and while, since
I've never met any of you face to face, I'm reluctant to describe you
as 'friends', I have definitely got to know some wonderful and
supportive people. You've shared your knowledge (not all of it to do
with weather, the Navy and computers), you've encouraged me when things
got difficult and been understanding when life has got tricky. The
really wonderful thing is that, all being well, we will be continuing
into the future.
MANY HAPPY RETURNS TO US
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That's a lovely birthday card Caro. 9 years - wow! :D :D :D
Happy Birthday OW!
(https://i.imgur.com/bebuDZo.png)
Admiral Robert Fitzroy, father of meteorology, sends his best wishes.
Backdrop - the windy Beaufort Sea of course :) :) :)
Hi
Studentforever you reminded me of a study of OW waaaaay back now. The
teeny tiny graph column is 'Looking for new online friends'. It was a
question that surprised me at the time. ;)
(https://imgur.com/2EgmwDr.png)
So I wondered what the graph would look like just for me today, and here it is... ;) ;)
(https://imgur.com/PBlnMJj.png)
Not quite sure of the day I joined by my first post was on April 27, 2012 :D
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Happy birthday to us! I'd just been trying to remember how
long ago I joined; I knew it wasn't right at the beginning, but not all
that long after. I've just checked my earliest post, which was in
December 2010, so my 9 year anniversary isn't all that far off.
Thank you all for being such a wonderful group of shipmates - I wouldn't have stuck with it without you.
Helen J
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Happy Birthday to us!
I don't remember the exact date, but I also joined after seeing the Beeb article.
It's
been quite a journey - not just for the project, but for myself. I've
really grown and matured a lot since back then, and I don't think I
would have managed it without all of you, without this amazing
community.
Thanks everyone!
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Yes, in about a month it will be 9 years since my first post! So,
onward and upward even though I am now almost 100% on the history side. I
console my scientific conscience by sorting out all those weird places
recorded in the log - I've just put noon-time coordinates on several
days entries for HMS Durban. So, if those folk at the Met Office haven't
included the weather for that day they will now be able to enter it. OK
it is Japan so there may be some nearby shore records but still.
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Happy Birthday
Old Weather !
(https://www.tinyme.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/10-nautical-cakes/10-Nautical-Cakes-2.jpeg)
My first forum post was 05 January 2011, but I started transcribing sooner.
I'm not certain, but I think I learned about OW from Science News.
The OW forum family got me through some rough times...
Thank you.
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Happy Birthday to us! It must be about my 8 year anniversary as well (although I didn't post until mid November).
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I've been here forever. ::) :-*
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Happy Birthday to us!
I don't remember the exact date, but I also joined after seeing the Beeb article.
It's
been quite a journey - not just for the project, but for myself. I've
really grown and matured a lot since back then, and I don't think I
would have managed it without all of you, without this amazing
community.
Thanks everyone!
That's such a nice thought hanibal :D :D :D
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Yes Hanibal, you have literally grown up with us, from schoolboy to
graduate to employed. We've enjoyed your company and been in awe of your
typing speed. We've also been thankful for your tips about dealing with
the internet problems, especially after you learned how to communicate
with us oldies about these things which were so blindingly obvious to
you but so baffling to us.
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:) :) :)!!!
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Happy Birthday
U. S. Navy !
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Happy OW birthday everyone!
And just as a small present I
would like to relate (one of those) moments from an event I attended
yesterday at the UW. It was a tour of three laboratories in Oceanography
for an invited group of diplomats. One of the presentations was about
corals and ocean acidification. The lead scientist explained that
changes in the microstructure of coral skeletons can be used to infer
the pH (acidity) of the seawater at the time of formation. A sort of
proxy pH meter. And, he said, luckily, there was a fisheries research
ship sailing up and down the west coast of North America in the 1890s
that scooped up many samples of coral that were then sent to the
Smithsonian Institution. He is now analyzing these samples as a
benchmark of 'pre-industrial carbon' in the ocean, but he wished he had
better information about the circumstances when they were collected.
Can you guess what ship it was? And who's got that missing information?
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;D ;D ;D
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The first ship I worked on some four and a half years ago was the
USFC Albatross. It was the first ship specially designed for Ocean
research and did many dredges and trawls around the US.
I would expect that this ship is the answer.
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Thanks Kevin :D
and
Happy Birthday
U. S. Navy !
from me too :D
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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First Log I can find in my Archives that I transcribed is M23 -
dated July 2012. I was doing the 'weather data' before that for a
few years. Found out about us from an article in Scientific
American.
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Happy Birthday CATPerrault!!
(https://imgur.com/waBO6CI.png)
Have a lovely day
;D ;D ;D
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Yes!!
Happy Birthday
CAT Perrault
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Happy Birthday
CATPerrault !
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9f/1c/5b/9f1c5b53380fe2f27868f4977cca7cb2.jpg)
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Hey that's a breathtaking cake Randi! :D I bet it tastes good too ;)
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Oh gee thanks gang! ;D That's very sweet of you all. Speaking of which, I'm stuffed full of sweets! :P
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Some pretty cool photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest:
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2019-winners-scli-intl/index.html
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Penguins for Joan!
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Those are amazing - thanks for posting them, hanibal.
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Yes, thank you!
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Oh gee thanks gang! ;D That's very sweet of you all. Speaking of which, I'm stuffed full of sweets! :P
;D ;D ;D Never mind - you've got a whole year to get over the sugar rush ;)
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Some pretty cool photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest:
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2019-winners-scli-intl/index.html
Yeh!
You're right Randi - penguins for me :D :D :D Thanks for posting
these hanibal. They are amazing. The fox and the marmot is
remarkable. :D
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A rather belated Thank You for all the beautiful birthday wishes!
Such lovely cakes, wow. And a Happy B-Day to all others and OWW as
well. Obviously my birthday resolution should be to make it to the Chat
board a bit more often. :)
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A
rather belated Thank You for all the beautiful birthday wishes! Such
lovely cakes, wow. And a Happy B-Day to all others and OWW as
well. Obviously my birthday resolution should be to make it to the Chat
board a bit more often. :)
And you'd be very welcome to be here - all work and no play etc etc... ;) ;D ;D ;D
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I didn't spot this coming through during the summer...I was probably
hidden in the coolest place I could find... ::) :'(
(https://imgur.com/Am4KKVH.png)
The
Radcliffe Met Station has the longest set of records in the UK. They
are over 200 years old. And proof that students can get out of bed
early. The records ust be made at the same time every day. Some of the
equipment still lives in the old observatory. The daylight meter had to
move to the top of Engineering which is just above the treeline :)
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Not 8)
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The Long Blue Line: Americas first ice ships and icebreakers (https://compass.coastguard.blog/2019/10/18/the-long-blue-line-americas-first-ice-ships-and-icebreakers/)
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The Long Blue Line: Americas first ice ships and icebreakers (https://compass.coastguard.blog/2019/10/18/the-long-blue-line-americas-first-ice-ships-and-icebreakers/)
That's a great article. Exciting to see the Northland at work :D
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Danish Rubjerg lighthouse moved inland on skates (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50139900)
:o Quite a story.
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Any Mac OS users should be aware of this LibreOffice issue and workaround.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/23/libreoffice_latest_victim_of_curse_of_catalina/
(https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/23/libreoffice_latest_victim_of_curse_of_catalina/)
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Thank you Gordon :)
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This day in history, 50 years ago...
Charley
Kline, a UCLA student, tries to send "login," the first message over
ARPANET, at 10:30 P.M. on October 29, 1969. The system transmitted "l"
and then "o" and then crashed. This event marks both the first message
sent over the Internet, and the first server crash.
We had to wait awhile, though, before the Blue Screen of Death made its appearance. ;D
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This day in history, 50 years ago...
Charley
Kline, a UCLA student, tries to send "login," the first message over
ARPANET, at 10:30 P.M. on October 29, 1969. The system transmitted "l"
and then "o" and then crashed. This event marks both the first message
sent over the Internet, and the first server crash.
We had to wait awhile, though, before the Blue Screen of Death made its appearance. ;D
It's a shame that it ever un-crashed looking at the amount of time-wasting stuff that appears ;)
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On the other hand, we would never have been able to work on Old Weather without it ...
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On the other hand, we would never have been able to work on Old Weather without it ...
:o :o :o now there's a ghastly thought. Ok - change of mind - long live the net!! ;D
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When I first started OW about 5 years ago the first ship name I came
across was SS City of Topeka. This ship was one of the rescue
vessels sent to the tragedy of the SS Valencia. This is a
harrowing tale of great life loss which has spawned a number of ghostly
sightings and the odd reappearance of one of the ships lifeboats some 30
years later. The following site gives a quite factual account of it all
but misses out on some of the more ghostly elements that have grown up
around the story. The reports of a lifeboat and skeletons found in
an inaccessible sea cave and also the reported visions of the wrecked
ship seen in fog banks or ships smoke.
https://www.historylink.org/File/7382
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What a terrible long drawn out end for so many people. It makes us thankful for GPS and radio SOS signals.
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Thanks for posting that!
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I think this is one of the better stories we've had about OW over
the years, produced by our local public radio station a few years ago:
https://www.opb.org/news/article/what-long-dead-whalers-have-to-do-with-climate-change/
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Thanks, Kevin!
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I
think this is one of the better stories we've had about OW over the
years, produced by our local public radio station a few years ago:
https://www.opb.org/news/article/what-long-dead-whalers-have-to-do-with-climate-change/
Oh
- that's pretty good Kevin! ;D Love the graphics. We're heading
up to that date and I know that some of our logs will be a loooong
stretch in ice. We did the Beluga in the old Scribe system. :D
What
amazes me is the use of steam to get right up to the north coast of the
US/Canada, and settle in for the winter in the hope of getting a flying
start into the next season. :o
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Wonderful article. Thank you...
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I have just bought something amazing from Ebay, almost without realising it.
It
was advertised as a photo album of HMS Yarmouth pictures, with no
indication of the number of photos & only a couple of pictures to
show the type. As I had some pictures already from HMS Yarmouth's post
war trip round South Africa I was interested, and managed to get the
album for what I think was a good price. If it was just Yarmouth post
war it would have been a reasonably good buy.
However, the album
is over 300 photos, half of which are from HMS Espiegle starting just
before WW1 & going right through the Mesopotamia Campaign, including
pictures of all those ships that we transcribed, such as the Blosse
Lynch, Massoudieh etc. It includes pictures of the launch of some of
those Insect class gunboarts at Abadan. Also pictures of actions against
the Turks, and their aftermath. Also copies of captured Turkish
telegaph communications. A real historical treasure.
Just a bit
of a shame that we dont have Espiegle's logs from the Mesopotamia
campaign as we do for Clio & Odin, as well as for some of the
gunboats. It will be difficult to identify some dates etc, but many I
will be able to find as the ships tended to work together, at least in
the early stages of the Mesopotamia campaign.
The advertisement did not even mention Espiegle, let alone the Mesopotamia campaign, so all this was a huge bonus for me.
I
have never seen any of the pictures before, so I think they are
entirely unpublished, with the possible exception of a couple of
Yarmouth in the Panama Canal. The quality is variable, but some are the
best quality pictures of that age that I have ever seen & all are in
good condition.
I now have masses of work to do identifying
dates & researching people, ships etc. It shouldnt be hard to
identify who took them as there cant be many officers who were on both
HMS ESPIEGLE & HMS YARMOUTH.
Since
I bought this album I have spent many happy hours working on the
photographs, & trying to identify as much as possible from each
picture. Many can be identified to date & location.
I have
also managed to work out who took the pictures. There is one person in
several photographs with the initials AGS underneath. Other officers are
identified by full name. By looking in the index of books on the
Mesopotamia campaign I identified Arthur George Seymour, Second
Lieutenant on HMS Espiegle as probable. The clincher was that he was
also on HMS Yarmouth for her journey round South Africa. He was fairly
easy to research his basic details as he was third son of a lord so in
Burkes Pearage.
I have also sent both albums away to be
professionally scanned so that I have the security of knowing that they
are safe, but also so that I can share them.
If you are
interested here is a link to a shared folder with scans of the
albums.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1PB2QdlqVO20a7sWehbuRBdbyifxDp-wC
You
will find three files. One, ?copy of photo album? are the scans of all
of the pages of the main album, over 400 photos. These include
transcripts of translations of Turkish telegrams indicating some of
their plans. There are also many from HMS Yarmouth after the war, but
also some others including the Diyatalawa rest camp in Ceylon & some
from Kashmir, probably after the war.
There is also a file
?Notes on AG Seymour?s album?, which are my research notes on AGS &
on each photo in that album. I dont claim that work is complete yet.
There are people & some events still to look up.
Finally
there is file of scans of another folder which is called the "black
folder". Those are another collection of photos also by Seymour, from
the HMS Yarmouth trip, presumably the ones that didn?t make the main
album. I bought those separately on ebay. That file includes scans of my
notes on those photos, which I keep in the same folder.
I
should add that contrary to my comment above a few of the pictures have
in fact been published including at least one on a postcard that I have
and a few in Captain Nunn's book on the Naval Campaign in Mesopotamia.
Please don?t feel that you have to view them all, it would take weeks, but I hope you enjoy seeing some of them.
Feel free to ask if these raise any questions, or if you have any problem viewing them.
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8) 8) 8)
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Wow, what a fascinating project! Just another example of the
wonderful things which are coming out of this whole enterprise.
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Fascinating collection, I hope you can use them to inspire some more of your research.
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Oh gosh :D :D :D Can't wait to see them - this computer is a
bit small to manage the files :'( What an astonishing find.
The details of the messages might be very useful to historians/museum
keepers?
I wonder if one of the insect class was the Tarantula - that's the one that had its barometer wrecked by an ants nest. :D
Congratulations
on working out who the photographer must have been. I wonder if the
pictures originally started with his family? :)
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Just in case you are at a loose end there's a TV prog about Scott
and Shackleton's ships just staring at 8.30 pm on UK Channel 5 :)
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Oh
gosh :D :D :D Can't wait to see them - this computer is a bit
small to manage the files :'( What an astonishing find. The
details of the messages might be very useful to historians/museum
keepers?
I wonder if one of the insect class was the Tarantula - that's the one that had its barometer wrecked by an ants nest. :D
Congratulations
on working out who the photographer must have been. I wonder if the
pictures originally started with his family? :)
Yes,
There is a picture of HMS TARANTULA. She was the first British military
unit into Baghdad when the Turks left on the 10th of March 1917. It is
photo 166 on page 33. Sadly no picture of the ant's nest.
Having
said that I realise that I made a mistake when I mentioned Insect class.
It was the Fly class, which were the smaller gunboats that were
assembled at Abadan. The insect class, Tarantuala & Mantis travelled
there under tow or their own steam.
I also realise that it is
very difficult to identify individual pages, as they arent numbered
& I decided that it would damage the album to write numbers on the
pages. I am planning to buy image editing software that will enable me
to write photo numbers & page numbers onto the scanned images, to
help.
I would love to know how the photos ended up being sold by
a dealer. It may be that his family didnt want them after he died &
they were perhaps cleared from his house or similar.
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Thanks! I'll look forward to seeing Tarantula then. I confess that I
hadn't heard of the Fly class. I did the edit on the Acacia - Flower
class (nice) ;)
I just can't imagine how much fun it was opening the parcel to receive all of those goodies :D
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I
am planning to buy image editing software that will enable me to write
photo numbers & page numbers onto the scanned images, to help.
Why not have a look at GIMP, it's free.
https://www.gimp.org/
Also useful to watermark the photos if you don't want someone else to take credit for them.
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Irfanview, which is free, will also allow you to do so. It also
works with PDF files. I use it for entering IPTC data
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTC_Information_Interchange_Model) like
keywords and titles. I tried Gimp, but I prefer Irfanview. It's really
great for enhancing images, too.
(https://i.imgur.com/geqVf1I.jpg)
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Belated
Happy Birthday
Arboggs !
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/af/3f/bb/af3fbb77ce84af86eb8ba042308d4e21--polar-bear-party-polar-bears.jpg)
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Yes! And a
Very Happy Birthday
from me, too!
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A Very Happy Birthday arboggs!!
(https://imgur.com/ObeuqrS.png)
:D :D :D :D :D
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I
have also managed to work out who took the pictures. There is one
person in several photographs with the initials AGS underneath. Other
officers are identified by full name. By looking in the index of books
on the Mesopotamia campaign I identified Arthur George Seymour, Second
Lieutenant on HMS Espiegle as probable. The clincher was that he was
also on HMS Yarmouth for her journey round South Africa. He was fairly
easy to research his basic details as he was third son of a lord so in
Burkes Pearage.
I have also sent both albums away to be
professionally scanned so that I have the security of knowing that they
are safe, but also so that I can share them.
If you are
interested here is a link to a shared folder with scans of the
albums.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1PB2QdlqVO20a7sWehbuRBdbyifxDp-wC
You
will find three files. One, ?copy of photo album? are the scans of all
of the pages of the main album, over 400 photos. These include
transcripts of translations of Turkish telegrams indicating some of
their plans. There are also many from HMS Yarmouth after the war, but
also some others including the Diyatalawa rest camp in Ceylon & some
from Kashmir, probably after the war.
There is also a file
?Notes on AG Seymour?s album?, which are my research notes on AGS &
on each photo in that album. I dont claim that work is complete yet.
There are people & some events still to look up.
Fascinating
album, I got quite exiting about getting a few OW related postcards, so
I can't imagine what it was like when you first looked through this.
Some possible help with confirming names on HMS Yarmouth (apologies if you've already got this!)
https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/94383872
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Happy Birthday Arboggs!
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Thank you for the birthday wishes!!!! :D :D :D
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(https://i.imgur.com/HXKEJUZ.jpg). (https://i.imgur.com/aVXZ1jZ.jpg)
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I
have also managed to work out who took the pictures. There is one
person in several photographs with the initials AGS underneath. Other
officers are identified by full name. By looking in the index of books
on the Mesopotamia campaign I identified Arthur George Seymour, Second
Lieutenant on HMS Espiegle as probable. The clincher was that he was
also on HMS Yarmouth for her journey round South Africa. He was fairly
easy to research his basic details as he was third son of a lord so in
Burkes Pearage.
I have also sent both albums away to be
professionally scanned so that I have the security of knowing that they
are safe, but also so that I can share them.
If you are
interested here is a link to a shared folder with scans of the
albums.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1PB2QdlqVO20a7sWehbuRBdbyifxDp-wC
You
will find three files. One, ?copy of photo album? are the scans of all
of the pages of the main album, over 400 photos. These include
transcripts of translations of Turkish telegrams indicating some of
their plans. There are also many from HMS Yarmouth after the war, but
also some others including the Diyatalawa rest camp in Ceylon & some
from Kashmir, probably after the war.
There is also a file
?Notes on AG Seymour?s album?, which are my research notes on AGS &
on each photo in that album. I dont claim that work is complete yet.
There are people & some events still to look up.
Fascinating
album, I got quite exiting about getting a few OW related postcards, so
I can't imagine what it was like when you first looked through this.
Some possible help with confirming names on HMS Yarmouth (apologies if you've already got this!)
https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/94383872
Thanks
so much. I have attempted to look at the British Military List archive
before, but never had much luck with it. I suspect that must have been
my fault as your link takes me straight to a document that I can search
for names. It will be a great help. Thanks again.
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Whilst looking for what a Franklin Bouy was I can across this site. Just a bit of fun which most will have heard of.
https://navyformoms.ning.com/forum/topics/navy-pranks-for-new-sailors-to
(https://navyformoms.ning.com/forum/topics/navy-pranks-for-new-sailors-to)
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Whilst looking for what a Franklin Bouy was I can across this site. Just a bit of fun which most will have heard of.
https://navyformoms.ning.com/forum/topics/navy-pranks-for-new-sailors-to
(https://navyformoms.ning.com/forum/topics/navy-pranks-for-new-sailors-to)
;D ;D ;D
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Whilst looking for what a Franklin Bouy was I can across this site. Just a bit of fun which most will have heard of.
https://navyformoms.ning.com/forum/topics/navy-pranks-for-new-sailors-to
(https://navyformoms.ning.com/forum/topics/navy-pranks-for-new-sailors-to)
;D ;D ;D
In my dad's factory the new kids were sent to stores for a bucket of steam.
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We always treated all our new employees with the greatest of
respect! I'm shocked and disappointed that not everyone is so
considerate. ::) ;D ;D ;D
In fact, I often said that
the practice of giving gifts to people leaving was pointless. They're
leaving, who cares what they think. We should give gifts to the new
people coming to work with us so they would have a positive first
impression.
;D ;D ;D ;D
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In
fact, I often said that the practice of giving gifts to people leaving
was pointless. They're leaving, who cares what they think. We should
give gifts to the new people coming to work with us so they would have a
positive first impression.
;D ;D ;D ;D
That makes a lot of sense! I'll see if I can bring it up at work.
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The Long Blue Line
Coast Guard Cutter Bear and NOAA hunt for the Bear (https://compass.coastguard.blog/2019/11/07/the-long-blue-line-coast-guard-cutter-bear-and-noaa-hunt-for-the-bear/)
I've
read lots of things on OW that made me cry with laughter, and plenty
that made me cry in sorrow. But the one that gets me every time is the
death of the Bear :'( :'( :'( I'm so excited that she
might be found, very excited indeed. What a wonderful combination of
staff from NOAA and the USCGC, and I loved the resultant description
"making the Coast Guard a ?Swiss Army knife? of services.".
I wish them all every luck. :D :D :D
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Great article, Joan! That was very nice to read after all the time I've spent with the Bear's logbooks.
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Fascinating article, and what great work. I do hope they find Bear.
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Me, too!!!
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Thanks to Randi for that bit of news about the Bear ;) I'll be watching for next Spring's results :D
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Watching a BBC programme about the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft
carrier yesterday evening, I was intrigued to discover that officers are
still trained to navigate using a sextant, because it's possible that
all other means, using satellite GPS etc, could be blocked by an enemy
in wartime. Sometimes the old ways are still the best!
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Watching
a BBC programme about the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier
yesterday evening, I was intrigued to discover that officers are still
trained to navigate using a sextant, because it's possible that all
other means, using satellite GPS etc, could be blocked by an enemy in
wartime. Sometimes the old ways are still the best!
Exactly so! :D :D :D
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Definitely!
I wonder how some gps-using car drivers would manage if the system went down.
Or just electrical problems...
Canadian aircraft too ;) (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5116.msg164041#msg164041)
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A Song of Our Warming Planet (https://ensia.com/videos/a-song-of-our-warming-planet/)
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Definitely!
I wonder how some gps-using car drivers would manage if the system went down.
God forbid that, I would be lost. :o
Or just electrical problems...
Canadian aircraft too ;) (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5116.msg164041#msg164041)
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A Song of Our Warming Planet (https://ensia.com/videos/a-song-of-our-warming-planet/)
I like this - great idea - and it's a better sound than glaciers calving too often :)
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Northland 1933 9th March.
Not an entry you see often in a log book.
10:15pm
Police removed a 1928 Essex automobile containing a corpse from estuary at foot of Market street.
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I can't say I ever saw one like that!
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Oh gosh - that's a nasty way to go :o
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Hi All! Greetings from the Great North...or should I say the
"Balmy North" these days! Weather in southcentral AK has been
unseasonably warm. Very bad for glaciers and permafrost.
Over the weekend Anchorage and communities surrounding it received
anywhere between 8-12 inches of snow and temps were in the mid to lower
30's. Today temps are in the mid 30's to lower 40's and we have
rain and freezing rain. Ugh! Makes for some really dreary
days. Glad I have OW to work on!! This weather is to persist
for the rest of the week so that means we may be snowless again
soon. I miss our "typical" winter. I've come to believe that
all over the globe there is no more "typical" weather any more!
Sharon
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Thanks!
Greetings from the great North East (southwestern PA)!
Today was high 30s to low 40s and no precipitation
November has been colder and dryer than normal.
This year has been warmer and wetter than normal.
::)
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Hi
All! Greetings from the Great North...or should I say the "Balmy
North" these days! Weather in southcentral AK has been
unseasonably warm. Very bad for glaciers and permafrost.
Over the weekend Anchorage and communities surrounding it received
anywhere between 8-12 inches of snow and temps were in the mid to lower
30's. Today temps are in the mid 30's to lower 40's and we have
rain and freezing rain. Ugh! Makes for some really dreary
days. Glad I have OW to work on!! This weather is to persist
for the rest of the week so that means we may be snowless again
soon. I miss our "typical" winter. I've come to believe that
all over the globe there is no more "typical" weather any more!
Sharon
Hi Sharon.
I am finding the same with the weather downunder in OZ. Bushfires followed by hailstones etc.
I was thinking that is hot till I remembered you use those old units F. ::). At the moment we are also in the 30s (C) ;D
Just starting to work on my Alaska trip and hoping your weather will be good by mid next year.
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Thanks to all the programmer of Ver 2.7 ;D
I do like the new features like not having to put in the . in the baro reading and only entering the last two number.
The auto advance for the next location box and setting the start position.
Alt L and Alt E are nice and neat now with Tab straight through the boxes.
Now if I could just find a turn on/off function to jump down 4 lines when in port ::)
Worked
it out. Enter data, return down to 4th line and enter data then use Tab
and it drops down 4 lines. NICE. ;) ;D
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Stuck in Arctic Ice, Dodging Polar Bears. All for Science. (https://nyti.ms/34c4glZ)
Despite
difficult ice conditions and curious polar bears, a German research
icebreaker [Polarstern] with 100 scientists and crew members is
comfortably adrift in the frozen Central Arctic, two months into a
yearlong expedition to study the region's changing climate.
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Hi
All! Greetings from the Great North...or should I say the "Balmy
North" these days! Weather in southcentral AK has been
unseasonably warm. Very bad for glaciers and permafrost.
Over the weekend Anchorage and communities surrounding it received
anywhere between 8-12 inches of snow and temps were in the mid to lower
30's. Today temps are in the mid 30's to lower 40's and we have
rain and freezing rain. Ugh! Makes for some really dreary
days. Glad I have OW to work on!! This weather is to persist
for the rest of the week so that means we may be snowless again
soon. I miss our "typical" winter. I've come to believe that
all over the globe there is no more "typical" weather any more!
Sharon
Hi Sharon,
I've
just been sweeping through the log of the whaler Belvedere and the
following is 'now' in 1897. Kevin did say that temperatures can
fluctuate a great deal up there. They are just 60 miles short of Point
Barrow at the very top tip of Alaska.
Week 8 since getting iced into the Sea Horse Islands 15th - 21st November 1897
Direction: Static
Weather: Thermometer reaches 24 above zero F. Snow returns.
Sea Ice: 20 inches thick
Just 3 weeks later:
Wk11 06/12
Direction: Static
Weather: 26 below zero F. NE wind and ends with snow storm. :o
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Great Joy!! After 2/3 weeks of working with a deputy machine I tried
opening up my dear OldTankDell laptop. The 'dead' keyboard is back
working again. Sooooo happy! :D
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(http://pre12.deviantart.net/8cd9/th/pre/f/2012/298/d/1/thumbs_up__by_cradet-d5ixmo7.png)
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Great
Joy!! After 2/3 weeks of working with a deputy machine I tried opening
up my dear OldTankDell laptop. The 'dead' keyboard is back working
again. Sooooo happy! :D
Great news - perhaps it just needed a rest?
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Great
Joy!! After 2/3 weeks of working with a deputy machine I tried opening
up my dear OldTankDell laptop. The 'dead' keyboard is back working
again. Sooooo happy! :D
Great news - perhaps it just needed a rest?
Thanks Randi and Helen ;D It certainly earns itself a rest now and then ;)
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Maybe its resident gremlin was missing its chocolate and decided to interfere but it's now forgiven you.
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Maybe its resident gremlin was missing its chocolate and decided to interfere but it's now forgiven you.
Oh!
I bet that's what the CD tray is for these days - next time I'll try
popping a few wafer thin chocolate mints in there. Simple!
Thanks! ;D ;D ;D
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Hi
All! Greetings from the Great North...or should I say the "Balmy
North" these days! Weather in southcentral AK has been
unseasonably warm. Very bad for glaciers and permafrost.
Over the weekend Anchorage and communities surrounding it received
anywhere between 8-12 inches of snow and temps were in the mid to lower
30's. Today temps are in the mid 30's to lower 40's and we have
rain and freezing rain. Ugh! Makes for some really dreary
days. Glad I have OW to work on!! This weather is to persist
for the rest of the week so that means we may be snowless again
soon. I miss our "typical" winter. I've come to believe that
all over the globe there is no more "typical" weather any more!
Sharon
North Pole doesn't have enough ice for its ice festival
Caroline Floyd
The Weather Network November 26, 2019
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/north-pole-doesnt-enough-ice-000000699.html
(https://ca.news.yahoo.com/north-pole-doesnt-enough-ice-000000699.html)
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:'( :'( :'(
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At this rate we'll be entertaining our granchildren (or great
grandchildren) with exciting stories of snow as we take them round a
'Museum of the Arctic - or - How things were in the (c)old days'
:-\ :-[ :( :'( :'( :'(
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For those of you who haven't decided what to fix today...
Coast Guard Thanksgiving (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5246.msg165351#msg165351)
Navy Thanksgiving (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5247.msg165352#msg165352)
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For those of you who haven't decided what to fix today...
Coast Guard Thanksgiving (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5246.msg165351#msg165351)
Navy Thanksgiving (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5247.msg165352#msg165352)
Woo! That's a lot of yummy choice! :D :D :D
Here's
what you get when you are a whaler stuck in ice for the winter at
Herschel Island (top of Canada, nearly at the Alaska boundary and a tiny
bit south of the Beaufort Sea :o)
Roast Pots & Duck with all fixings
What else would you have for pudding? Ice cream ::) ;D (then again it is only 12 degrees below zero F. that day, quite balmy)
The Beluga, Winter 1897, Thursday 25th November (https://archive.org/details/logboookofbeluga00belu/page/34)
(https://imgur.com/X07XNl0.png)
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Readings from the Pittsburgh Int'l. Airport through 5 p.m. Nov 27, 2019
Temperature
High ............................ 62
Normal high ..................... 46
Year ago ........................ 30
Record high ..................... 75 (1990)
Low ............................. 44
Normal low ...................... 31
Year ago ........................ 25
Record low ...................... 7 (1930)
Departure from normal
Yesterday ....................... +14.3
Month to date ................... -5.5
Year to date .................... +1.0
Precipitation (inches)
24 hours ending 5 p.m yest. ..... 0.12
Month to date ................... 1.63
Normal month to date ............. 2.90
Departure from normal ........... -1.27
Year to date .................... 48.91
Normal year to date ............. 35.01
Departure from normal ........... +13.90
Readings from the Pittsburgh Int'l. Airport through 5 p.m. Nov 28, 2019
Temperature
High ............................ 39
Normal high ..................... 46
Year ago ........................ 26
Record high ..................... 73 (1990)
Low ............................. 35
Normal low ...................... 31
Year ago ........................ 23
Record low ...................... 8 (1930)
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Happy Birthday
to our very own
Caro
(https://cdn001.cakecentral.com/gallery/2015/03/900_875789exoS_donkey-cake.jpg)
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Happy Birthday
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Happy Birthday, Caro!
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Happy Birthday, Caro!
(http://www.creativecatgd.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/black-cat-cake.jpg)
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Happy birthday, Caro - enjoy it all.
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Thank you everyone.
All my favourite things: donkeys, cats and cake, not necessarily in that order. ;D
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Wishing you a very special and happy day Caro!
(https://imgur.com/tkjIiK7.png)
Happy Birthday!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Many Happy Returns, Caro!
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Dear Caro:
(https://i.imgur.com/HXKEJUZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Pe4VikM.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/aVXZ1jZ.jpg)
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Do NOT update to LibraCalc Version: 6.3.3.2 (x64).
Not stable.
CC on Tech board with more details.
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We always recommend using the older, tested version...
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p29DrIPa5s1TZGXZwtcHOpFZ0AhFdHBLmKCgJQ7REmw/pub?start=false#slide=id.p
Gordon says the flickering buttons problem should be fixed in their next release.
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There is a known bug in LibreOffice since version 6.3.0 that causes
some of our buttons to flicker. They have a fix for it which they
plan to include in version 6.3.4. However, I would recommend
against installing that version because that will still be considered a
test version.
Version 6.2.8 should work fine for OW. I'm
currently using version 6.0.7 because I'm running Linux/Ubuntu and
that's the most recent version supported by the Ubuntu team.
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LibreOffice version 6.2.8.2 (x64) is working for me.
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6.4 beta 1 is now working OK now I have got it set up correctly.
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A good news story, especially for Joan.
https://www.buzznick.com/oldest-person-sweaters-for-penguins/?fbclid=IwAR0IT6jdA-R_hMS8NnYdoC5seLdGNsRr24w9cvcGsKcxWUSH18_eaOg-OUw
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That is great. Made my morning. ;D
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A good news story, especially for Joan.
https://www.buzznick.com/oldest-person-sweaters-for-penguins/?fbclid=IwAR0IT6jdA-R_hMS8NnYdoC5seLdGNsRr24w9cvcGsKcxWUSH18_eaOg-OUw
What a great story. Made my morning. ;D
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A good news story, especially for Joan.
https://www.buzznick.com/oldest-person-sweaters-for-penguins/?fbclid=IwAR0IT6jdA-R_hMS8NnYdoC5seLdGNsRr24w9cvcGsKcxWUSH18_eaOg-OUw
What a great story. Made my morning. ;D
Thanks
Helen! That's one amazing man making an amazing story - I'll post to PW
tomorrow. I'm so impressed by Albert - first of all he's
self taught before the age of the internet (where you can learn just
about any craft from what I've seen), and he's kept going to 109 years
old. Those penguins are so lucky. Albert's a hero in my book
:D :D :D
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Wreck of the SMS Scharnhorst discovered (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50670743)
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Wreck of the SMS Scharnhorst discovered (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50670743)
Oh
wow! That's an important find...let's hope that it doesn't
disappear in the way that some ships have been vanishing recently.
:-[
Shame that we didn't get a mention for having handled the logs for the ships in that battle :-\ ::)
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I'm happy/shocked/not surprised/disappointed (you choose) to report
that even in this high tech world it's hard to report a temperature
correctly. It reminded me of the log keepers' occasional errors.
:)
From the Crows nest display of the environmental conditions on
the MV Eurodam a few hours after we left San Diego Harbor. Note the
temperature of 0C. ;D No sign of ice outside!!! ;D ;D
;D
(http://i.imgur.com/aUcnMh1.jpg) (https://imgur.com/aUcnMh1)
PS The displays elsewhere were OK. ;)
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Note the temperature of -0C ::)
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Amazing - just goes to show that even science can develop. Clearly
we need this level of tech to understand that -0C exists. Even
without ice ;D ;D ;D
Hi Michael!! :D
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North Pole, Alaska
Population: ~2,100
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/rtXpsiEocrojaSfMCJkz3vyeLZQ=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VANTJ6QQREI6VESMWNGQTO6JJA.jpg)
Santa
Claus House, in North Pole, Alaska, started out as a general store and
post office and has grown into a year-round attraction. The town is 14
miles southeast of Fairbanks. (iStock)
Perhaps the most perfect
backdrop for a meet-cute is North Pole, Alaska. The town is so dedicated
to the season that even its city government website has a Christmas
countdown on the homepage. About 15 miles outside of Fairbanks, the town
of North Pole's main attraction is Santa Claus's house, where visitors
can take photos with the big man himself as well as some real reindeer.
The
holiday season kicks off with such fanfare as a winter festival, a
candle-lighting ceremony, a community tree-lighting (maybe this is your
best bet for bumping into an attractive stranger) and ice carving.
Airbnbs in the area are aplenty, including deeply romantic log cabins
that advertise visibility of the Northern Lights.
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Happy Birthday
Gordon
(http://www.skagwayalaskatours.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f4aa30056c15f567698b7a8a41c4a8c0.jpg)
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Yes, indeed!
A Very Happy Birthday to you, Gordon!!!
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If Birthday = Yes
Then Print Happy Birthday Gordon
Happy Birthday Gordon
Else Print Not today
End
(Give me a break, it's 50yrs since I coded)
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;D ;D ;D
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Nice one, Stuart ;D
Here's the same code in Java, for comparison:
if ( LocalDate.now() == Gordon.getBirthday().getDate() ) {
System.out.println("Happy Birthday, Gordon!")
}
else {
System.out.println("Not today")
}
Hmmm...
That does look pretty dense, but Java is rather verbose compared to
other modern programming languages (Which is a good or bad thing
depending on how you feel about it...)
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That looks like hard work.
My first coding was in BASIC.
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(I thought that Java was a type of coffee? :-\ ;D)
A very happy birthday to you Gordon!
(https://imgur.com/C1PtZx4.png)
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Thank you so much everyone! 8)
I just returned
from one of my favorite activities; a Volkssport walk. This one
was in Orting, a small town near the base of Mt. Rainier.
Does OW have an age limit? If so, I must be approaching it. ;D
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Thank you so much everyone! 8)
I
just returned from one of my favorite activities; a Volkssport
walk. This one was in Orting, a small town near the base of Mt.
Rainier.
Does OW have an age limit? If so, I must be approaching it. ;D
Yep - age 120 years - keep going! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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A very happy birthday to you Gil!!!
(https://imgur.com/xku8pIq.png)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Happy Birthday
Gil Compo
(http://images.gawker.com/amopdlrxiowu7ltxj3qw/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
(http://thevane.gawker.com/meteorologist-makes-the-best-weather-geekiest-cake-eve-1559259241)
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You all are so sweet and thoughtful. Thanks!
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Mid to high 40s (C) expected in SE Australia this week.
In some places that is 20c above average (and it usually gets hotter in January).
Together with Bush fires and no significant rain expected before March/April not a good outlook.
Washington
Post
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/12/17/australia-braces-highest-temperatures-recorded-history-amid-blistering-heat-wave)
ABC news (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-17/heatwave-weather-australia-south-east-states-to-swelter/11804502)
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We're supposed to be in the 40s here too --- (F) ;D
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Here's a small story in Smithsonian about the age of bowhead whales.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-whales-alive-today-who-were-born-before-moby-dick-was-written-660944/
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8)
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It makes me feel very happy to know that these creatures are seeing a
turn in their fortunes - however slender it be. Recently the Inuit
caught a whale with an 1871 harpoon head in it.
HOW many logs
have we worked on where it could have been that whale? 'Drew the iron,
going fast to windward, could not follow' is the phrase that always
makes me feel a happy bunny. I'll see if they worked out what the ship
was (they usually marked their irons). :)
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Wow! Perhaps one of them escaped from Fleetwing - I confess
I'm always cheering when Adaline records that they lowered the boats for
a whale but he (she always calls them he) got away.
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Sorry - got the date slightly mixed up, but it's still in the 1870s.
Helen I know what you mean - it's a bewitching idea isn't it? ;) :D
Here's the content of the news article:
Whale survives harpoon attack 130 years ago to become 'world's oldest mammal'
by DAVID GARDNER Last updated at 23:37 13 June 2007
A
giant bowhead whale caught off the coast of Alaska had a harpoon point
embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt ? more than a
century ago. Alaskan whalers found the harpoon fragment. Biologists
claim the find helps prove the bowhead is the oldest living mammal on
earth.
They say the 13-centimetre arrow-shaped fragment dates
back to around 1880, meaning the 50-ton whale had been coasting around
the freezing arctic waters since Victorian times.
(https://imgur.com/fo7iCsi.png)
Because
traditional whale hunters never took calves, experts estimate the
bowhead was several years old when it was first shot and about 130 when
it died last month. Calculating a bowhead whale's age can be difficult,
and is usually gauged by amino acids in the eye lenses. It is rare to
find one that has lived more than a century, but experts now believe the
oldest were close to 200 years old.
"No other finding has been
so precise," said John Bockstoce, a curator at the New Bedford Whaling
Museum in Massachusetts.The weapon fragment lodged in a bone between the
whale's neck and shoulder blade comes from a 19th century bomb
lance. Experts have pinned down the weapons manufacture to a New
England factory in about 1880 and say it was rendered obsolete by a less
bulky darting gun a few years later. [...] The bowhead was protected by
a one foot thick layer of blubber and thick bones it uses to break
through ice one foot thick to breathe at the surface.
"It
probably hurt the whale, or annoyed him, but it hit him in a non-lethal
place," said Mr Bockstoce. "He couldn't have been that bothered if he
lived for another 100 years." The find adds growing weight to evidence
that bowheads outlive all other mammals. Six similar harpoon points have
been found in the whales since 2001, all suggesting they live much
longer than previously thought.
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Neat!
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Hot enough for you, Stuart? I see it is 40.5 in Gosford for
Christine, and a relative humidity of 11%. Smoky, too, I suspect.
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2 big fires just started this afternoon and 2 that may join into a MEGA fire area (Blue Mts and Gospers creek).
Between 20 and houses lost just this afternoon at the Bargo fire and thousands of peoples Christmas plans in disarray.
Bad day expected on Saturday. 45c+ and strong winds.
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2 big fires just started this afternoon and 2 that may join into a MEGA fire area (Blue Mts and Gospers creek).
Between 20 and houses lost just this afternoon at the Bargo fire and thousands of peoples Christmas plans in disarray.
Bad day expected on Saturday. 45c+ and strong winds.
Oh
gosh - Stuart that is such bad news :'( Losing your home
and beloved belongings at this time of year is so hurtful,it's bad at
any other time, but at Christmas :'( :'( :'(
I really hope that you get as cool and wet spell soon :)
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On BBC Radio 4 this afternoon (hopefully also available outside the
UK) Inside Science (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cc1v), the
first item on the list is 'Ten Years of Zooniverse'. It was the previous
science program in this same time slot that alerted me to the existence
of OW (8? years ago)
Stuart, hope it cools down soon. Wish we could send you some of our rain!
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Oooo - must catch that on iplayer then. I can make a recording of it to post on here I think - I'll give it a go. :)
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Oooo - must catch that on iplayer then. I can make a recording of it to post on here I think - I'll give it a go. :)
As an added incentive Adam Rutherford said Penguin Watch is his favourite. But no mention of OW :'(
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Just listened. Super plug for Zooniverse but concentrated on
astronomy and zoology projects. I suppose the main groups. He did
mention papyri (I think the Oxyrhyncus project based in Oxford where
they are trying to marry up fragments of papyrus carrying old text,
mainly in Greek, Latin or Coptic. I had a brief flirtation there but
found the interface clunky and I spent more effort fighting it than
doing the transcription). He did indicate that they may be trying to
marry AI and volunteers but our more specialist OW missed out, so did
the museum transcriptions. Ah well! In 10 min or so he couldn't cover
everything but he did put in an appeal for new volunteers to drop in and
see if they wished to become a committed 'citizen scientist' rather
than a 'tourist'.
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I suspect that some of our friends and families think we should be committed ;D
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I suspect that some of our friends and families think we should be committed ;D
:D :D :D
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;D ;D ;D
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120F (49.9C) Wednesday on the Nullarbor.
Australia's NATIONAL average on Tuesday was 40.9.
Rosemary.
Please explain.
I had a brief flirtation there but found the interface clunky and I spent more effort fighting. :o ;D
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:o :o :o
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Happy Birthday
AvastMH
(Joan)
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7c/3e/5d/7c3e5d53e9b509c73cce3aef58aaa383.jpg)
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Happy birthday, Joan (AvastMH)!!! :) :D ;D
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Happy Birthday Joan
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Happy Birthday to You.
Happy Birthday to You.
Happy Birthday dear Joan.
Happy Birthday to You.
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Happy birthday, Joan!
I found you a suitable cake: https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/gallery/photo/33240
Eric
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Happy birthday Joan!
(https://images.spiritofnature.co.uk/images/452039-Santa-Hat-Hedgehog-Charity-Christmas-Cards.jpg)
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Have a very Happy Birthday, Joan!
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Happy Birthday, Joan!
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Happy birthday, Joan - I hope it can be full of light on this darkest day of the year.
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Happy Birthday Dear Lady!! Enjoy the Day!! ;D
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Happy Birthday Dear Joan!!!
We couldn't do this without you!
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Happy Birthday, Joan! Enjoy your day! 🎉🎂💫
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:D :D :D
Happy birthday Joan!!!
:D :D :D
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Many Happy Returns, Joan!
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Wishing you a Very Happy Birthday Joan! ;D ;D
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Awwwwww thank you everyone!!!!
Thank
you for all your wonderful birthday wishes. There's nothing like
arriving here on your birthday to find so many kind wishes! You're so
right Helen - this is certainly light in the shortest day of the year
(Stuart - put on a blindfold to experience the northern darkness
;) 8))
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Amazing cake Randi...you are so good at cakes ;) ;D
And thank you espross - here's your pan-cake-ice picture (click it to see it in 'big') ;D
(https://imgur.com/awBQXUy.png)
I'm throwing a birthday tea so come and join in everyone...
(https://imgur.com/jKhpml4.png)
I've saved the victoria sponge for Andrew (Marshall) ;)
(https://imgur.com/q1I6Iqi.png)
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A teeny tiny wee bit late HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOAN!!! Hope it was a lovely day :)
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Haven't decided what to have for Christmas dinner yet?
Here are some ideas...
See the menus at Chronology of Navy History (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5247.msg166097#msg166097)
More tomorrow!
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A teeny tiny wee bit late HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOAN!!! Hope it was a lovely day :)
Awww- thanks Terry! ;D
Randi - I'll take the Christmas 1926 on the USS Colorado please. :D
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Hungry?
Chronology of Navy History (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5247.msg166115#msg166115)
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Oh more - yummy!
The USS Bridge 1939 please - they have apple pie on the menu. I loooooove apple pie ;) 8)
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And after dinner drop by Holidays in the U.S. Log Books
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4300.msg166124#msg166124)
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And after dinner drop by Holidays in the U.S. Log Books (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4300.msg166124#msg166124)
Feet on the table linen - what will they think of next? ;D
I have a friend who needs applause before the punch line :o ::) ;D
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What can I say. They're Navy. I was Air Force. We threw buns.
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Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
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Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Thank
you Starbuck19! And a big thank you for your work on the Whalers!
And a very fine Christmas and New Year to you. :D :D :D
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZUplWZFM7xQrc5Mt2Bzc2VIdmwwuYMm4aiR8KR968WgNSXexOYftGUJE0S4-Gkg8shDaYtDn4K_s-0usZBLRA0CEughgrmGUZC-1AO4zn25q73LK_40MCRnuWzvk8KIDq0ab-itRcJJqvITqZgmzWQ5aBKJ0vlGooe-qpXg30NbG_Fm66aNuvUfvWpEzuUe9oMTbwe09pFhZ0iiBla4dyfQq6Nmwiyw3B6bsyYVAdo76QEDSh1NyOiW6M42nMaUxoC13ynp6OvrGoD5vG-YFkik6Gpld6QtEHDlSAPUzgapmgs3Z_caaV37RQnONBESCqF3Ss9dZdjUVJjRfWSBZcRbbuuSTRfJ1wdDhQCIGCUgADx-nE5eq8RbcQzopsATmc_QYT4ajw4CPneTc_llAVBt_dpCH5pnL3MY0m0tFFKkcxLXs7Gja8wXtjn97HX-4IrxZVPDCyA2GhsZ33Wykir7pMSqu9NGJsVnLY3-CeknR5JXdW_XiP4eEnHIxl1Y00Wb3zRTB5JQnmf0t6oYvsnI6whw-wkVGc9Q2o7vR1NbcSF9apFfQM3aBp9lO1DhJQhGh-S9vlg7gGvStAflOFA2PMuab-ygEljGU9XsCtCW3J1nAv4jD8ZQ39InFzskZrdFb06h9aJMUOeN2rT8x_7gTusEwklN9IPV7vZSVKhw47vSO3kQiqFRJDSqFFTsVkYTfZsbQjXEq5nu5PzWsn7ibz1q8xHKmkOAlFAytLl8ghfj3WA=w460-h594-no)
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:) :)
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Eat hearty! (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5247.msg166149#msg166149)
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(http://www.ww1photos.com/Archive_Royal_Navy_Christmas.jpg)
Christmas with the Royal Navy in Scotland 1915
:)
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I love all the stockings hanging on that magnificent Christmas tree :D :D :D
40 minutes to get to bed and hide before Santa comes to us in England. Stuart's already seen visited I hope :D
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Happy Birthday Anita and Happy Christmas everybody.
The weather damp and dreary here in Yorkshire, England.
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A very happy birthday to you Anita(https://imgur.com/YANPzSm.png)
:D :D :D :D :D
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Happy Christmas and thank you one and all.
A poem of recognition and remembrance for all the sailors at sea this Christmas and past hundreds before.
Christmas at Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson
The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;
The decks were like a slide, where a seamen scarce could stand;
The wind was a nor'wester, blowing squally off the sea;
And cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a-lee.
They heard the surf a-roaring before the break of day;
But 'twas only with the peep of light we saw how ill we lay.
We tumbled every hand on deck instanter, with a shout,
And we gave her the maintops'l, and stood by to go about.
All day we tacked and tacked between the South Head and the North;
All day we hauled the frozen sheets, and got no further forth;
All day as cold as charity, in bitter pain and dread,
For very life and nature we tacked from head to head.
We gave the South a wider berth, for there the tide-race roared;
But every tack we made we brought the North Head close aboard:
So's we saw the cliffs and houses, and the breakers running high,
And the coastguard in his garden, with his glass against his eye.
The frost was on the village roofs as white as ocean foam;
The good red fires were burning bright in every 'long-shore home;
The windows sparkled clear, and the chimneys volleyed out;
And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel went about.
The bells upon the church were rung with a mighty jovial cheer;
For it's just that I should tell you how (of all days in the year)
This day of our adversity was blessed Christmas morn,
And the house above the coastguard's was the house where I was born.
O well I saw the pleasant room, the pleasant faces there,
My mother's silver spectacles, my father's silver hair;
And well I saw the firelight, like a flight of homely elves,
Go dancing round the china-plates that stand upon the shelves.
And well I knew the talk they had, the talk that was of me,
Of the shadow on the household and the son that went to sea;
And O the wicked fool I seemed, in every kind of way,
To be here and hauling frozen ropes on blessed Christmas Day.
They lit the high sea-light, and the dark began to fall.
"All hands to loose topgallant sails," I heard the captain call.
"By the Lord, she'll never stand it," our first mate Jackson, cried.
..."It's the one way or the other, Mr. Jackson," he replied.
She staggered to her bearings, but the sails were new and good,
And the ship smelt up to windward just as though she understood.
As the winter's day was ending, in the entry of the night,
We cleared the weary headland, and passed below the light.
And they heaved a mighty breath, every soul on board but me,
As they saw her nose again pointing handsome out to sea;
But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold,
Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.
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Thank you, Kevin!
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Happy Birthday
Anita
(https://www.cakeclicks.com/images/cakeclicks/8f/8f2996ebef1aed0962f9aa88e4cb11d8.jpeg)
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Top of the season to you all.
Yet again an animated Christmas wish.
And yes, it's rather silly, but luckily it's short, about 20 seconds.
Lets break through the barrier of 2019 to advance to the new decade, shall we? :)
Watch the animation here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/mR7NwYXDv80
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
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Happy Holidays, and Happy Birthday Anita!
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Watch the animation here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/mR7NwYXDv80
That's a lot of fum Maikel - thank you!
A Very Merry Christmas to All
:D :D :D :D :D
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Happy Birthday, Anita!!!
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Merry Christmas to All!!!
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Well done, Maikel!
Happy Christmas to all !!!
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Would you believe it?!
Some lunatic posted still more Christmas
pictures in Chronology of Navy History
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5247.msg166196#msg166196)
::)
Don't people have anything better to do with their time?
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:o :o :o
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Thank you for the birthday wishes too.
Enjoy the day!
Anita
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While Volunteering at the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum for
Lunch with Santa (and 100 little ones) I got to ride with the Old
Gent! ;)
(https://i.imgur.com/8IXJkA3m.jpg)
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Dean, I bet that Santa really enjoyed meeting you and riding on the carousel ;D ;D
So many Navy dinners - and an awesome selection of extensive menus they are. :D
From
the whalers we are proud to offer Christmas Dinner 1897 on the Beluga,
Captain H Bodfish (still a surname that makes me goggle and chortle).
They were stuck in the Arctic intentionally at this point. But it got
beyond a game the following year when the great Overland Expedition had
to rescue them.
They got local produce where possible - i.e. the ducks. ;) ::)
Beluga Dec 25th 1897 (https://archive.org/details/logboookofbeluga00belu/page/35) (at 15 degrees below zero Fahrenheit)
Roast Duck & Pork
Apple & Cranberry sauce
tea & Claret wine.
2 kinds of cake & 2 of pie. 2 kinds of Ice Cream
(https://imgur.com/nTG9hdJ.png)
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Happy Christmas everyone - a bit belated, but remember Christmas goes on until January 6th (at least ....)
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Happy New Year to all and I hope it will be better than some in Australia.
Severe bush fires in NSW, Vic and SA.
These reports may give you some idea how bad it is.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/homes-and-lives-threatened-in-victoria-as-bushfires-claim-volunteer-nsw-firefighter/live-coverage/eccdbf36e90795da92052636148934be
(https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/homes-and-lives-threatened-in-victoria-as-bushfires-claim-volunteer-nsw-firefighter/live-coverage/eccdbf36e90795da92052636148934be)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/31/australia-bushfires-towns-devastated-and-lives-lost-as-blazes-turn-the-sky-red
(https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/31/australia-bushfires-towns-devastated-and-lives-lost-as-blazes-turn-the-sky-red)
At
Mallacoota on the Victorian/NSW border thousands of residents and
holiday makers were ordered on to the beach and into the sea as fire and
embers rained down on them. They were in the sea for up to 8 hrs.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-31/girl-in-mask-on-boat-in-mallacoota-1/11834486
(https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-31/girl-in-mask-on-boat-in-mallacoota-1/11834486)
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Be well and be safe Stuart!!
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Thanks.
This is the up to-date fire map for NSW. (https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/fires-near-me)
My location is near the M1 Hwy halfway between Central Coast and Newcastle (North of Sydney)
Nearest fire is at Charmhaven 14 km away south.
Some fires are generation their own PyroCumulas clouds.
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On a more cheerful note, I just came across Time ball
(https://stardate.org/radio/program/2019-12-30?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20191231§ion=backStory?campaign_id=9&instance_id=14870&segment_id=19955&user_id=dbbc73506986ff107ba21face1c7410b®i_id=79267039on=backStory)
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We saw the one in Sydney some years ago, when we were doing a walking tour with Christine's Aunt Lesley. :)
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They mention 1881 in Boston, I wonder which of our ships might have checked their time against that one? :D
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!
I'm
wondering, where do OW'ers stand on when the new decade starts--is it
now, or will it be the year 2021? ???
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It feels like it now, but 2021 seems to be the technically correct choice :-\
Check out our log keeper's new year's day poetic efforts at Chronology of Navy History (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5247.msg166338#msg166338) and Chronology of Coast Guard History (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=5246.msg166336#msg166336).